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On the left: the BepiColombo spacecraft, the MORE - Mercury Orbiter Radioscience Experiment - logo and team. BepiColombo is an ESA mission devoted to the scientific exploration of Mercury. Launch: 20 October 2018.
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)
View from ISS