K_a-Band Link Budget Analysis for Deep Space Communications

The emerging demand for increased data rates between Earth, the lunar gateway, Mars, and various other deep space probes will stretch existing deep space network (DSN) antennas beyond capacity. The DSN antennas distributed across Canberra, Madrid, and Goldstone are capable of tracking the Mars Recon...

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Published in:	IEEE Access
Main Authors:	Md. Saiful Islam, Jakeya Sultana, Nicholas P. Lawrence, Aaron T. Pereira, Stephen J. Salamon, Alex Dinovitser, Thien Duc Nguyen, Jose E. Velazco, Brian W.-H. Ng, Nelson Tansu, Frederick W. Menk, Ed Kruzins, Neil H. E. Weste, Said F. Al-Sarawi, Derek Abbott
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 2025-01-01
Subjects:	Deep space network Ka band link budget analysis ITU-R models
Online Access:	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11142254/