Welcome to Luciano Iess's Homepage
On the left: the JUNO mission (NASA) was launched on 5 agosto 2011 and it will orbit around Jupiter till 2021 and beyond. Its main purposes are the study of the atmosphere and the interior structure of the planet. Centre: artist view of the Cassini and Huygens probes at Saturn. Right: Saturn almost at equinox, as seen from Cassini (ISS Cassini).
Class Notes
Teaching/Learning Aids
Follow the link below for class notes and additional teaching material (username and password required):
Other learning aids
- From Sundials to Atomic Clocks (fun and interesting)
- Relativity in the Global Positioning System (N. Ashby)
- DESCANSO monographies
- "Radiometric Tracking Techiques for Deep Space Navigation" monography
- Phase and group velocity (*)
- Mission Operation- J. Webster (JPL)
(*) These slides includes an introduction to the propagation of electromagnetic wawes in the plasmas. The last part is about the idea of group velocity.
Software
- MatLab program: the howitzer (NEW! 16 March 2018)
- MatLab program: numerical integration with ODE113/ODE45 (NEW! 30 March 2018)
- MatLab code: Coherent BPSK modulator/demodulator Version 1 (shown in class - 14 May 2020)
- MatLab code: Coherent BPSK modulator/demodulator (complex deciding waveform)
A Morning Line of Stars and Planets