Model, Antenna, High-gain, Mars, Pathfinder Lander
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Summary
- The Mars Pathfinder possessed five separate antennas for cruise, landing, and surface operations during its 1997 mission. The most important of these was this high-gain antenna, providing continuous telecommunications from the lander on the Martian surface to Earth. This high-gain antenna included a mechanically-steered slotted plate with 2 degrees of freedom in pointing. It provided a nominal 125 bits per second (b/s) uplink rate and a telemetry downlink rate of approximately 600 b/s that could be monitored using the NASA Deep Space Network on Earth containing 34-meter and 70-meter dish antennas.
- NASA transferred this to the Museum with the Pathfinder engineering model in 1999.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Inventory Number
- A19990073002
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- SPACECRAFT-Uncrewed-Parts & Structural Components
- Materials
- Metal, plastic, and eletronic components
- Dimensions
- Overall: 2in. x 11in. x 1ft 2in. (5.1 x 27.9 x 35.6cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Exhibit Station
- Space Science
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19990073002
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9f298f667-f221-49d6-ad78-0a1e18d9c10a
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