NASA-LLIS-0416
Lessons Learned - Voyager - S/X-Band Antenna Subsystem Intermodulation Products at Cold Temperatures (~1976)
| Organization: | NASA |
| Publication Date: | 1 July 1996 |
| Status: | active |
| Page Count: | 3 |
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Abstract:
Qualification testing at extreme cold temperatures found that noise could be generated from the minute differential expansion between semi-rigid aluminum coaxial cables and their attached stainless steel shells. Beware of the intermodulation product phenomenon, and test for it during antenna subsystem pre- and post-environmental tests, after antenna installation on the spacecraft, and prelaunch.
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