On 5/23/20 8:19 AM, Jeremy Nichols wrote:
Sufficiently interesting that I bought a paper copy through Abebooks. Looks
like a somewhat later version, author given as Douglas Mudgway, title
“ Uplink-Downlink:
A History of the Deep Space Network 1957-1997.” “Oversized,” 674
pages. Abebooks
lists a couple dozen copies in both hardback and paperback at prices from
reasonable to ridiculous, as is usual for bookstores.
Different author (The report I pointed to is by William Corliss), but
perhaps the same source material, (at least up to 1975)
it's available as a downloadable pdf, theoretically (although the link
is to the cover page only) - I'll talk to the site owner and get that fixed.
https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/history/dsnHistory.html
(there's a version here:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20020033033.pdf)
The second link on the dsnhistory page, to a list of references, is
something you might find interesting.
There's a set of books published by JPL at
https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/
Various series.. Some are not particularly time-nutty, but some are -
I'd look for things on radiometric tracking and nav.
Here's a whole series on it:
https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/evolution/evolution.html - not much
technical detail in the paper, more a history of what was done when, but
the papers in the references might be useful.
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