Rodriguez-Alvarez, Nereida and Jao, Joseph S. and Lee, Clement G. and Slade, Martin A. and Lazio, Joseph and Oudrhiri, Kamal and Andrews, Kenneth S. and Snedeker, Lawrence G. and Liou, Ronglin R. and Stanchfield, Kevin A. (2021) The Improved Capabilities of the Goldstone Solar System Radar Observatory. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing . ISSN 0196-2892. (In Press) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210626-183437646
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The Goldstone Solar System Radar (GSSR) facility is the largest fully steerable ground-based radar in the world for nonclassified high-resolution ranging and imaging of planetary and small-body targets. Over the years, the use of the GSSR to detect and characterize near-Earth objects (NEOs) has become critical to keep track of potential Earth-impacting hazardous NEO. This article relates the specific modifications made to the GSSR hardware and procedures in the last few years, as well as the new capabilities derived from those upgrades: reduced complexity in remote operations, increased experimental design versatility, and increased performance on bistatic radar experiments from GSSR to other complexes. In addition, we dedicate a section to provide an update on the current GSSR power capabilities as the new klystrons are installed. The work detailed in this article is intended to reach the broader science community in order to communicate how those modifications and the derived new capabilities can make science experiments more successful.
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| Additional Information: | © 2021 IEEE. Manuscript received January 14, 2021; revised April 20, 2021; accepted April 21, 2021. This work was supported in part by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and in part by the DSN O&M Project—SSR Tech Leadership 2020, California Institute of Technology. This work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Government sponsorship acknowledged. | ||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | Goldstone Solar System Radar (GSSR), planetary radar, observatory | ||||||
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| Deposited By: | George Porter | ||||||
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