[amsat-bb] Re: Curiosity - VK1ALR Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex Interview

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a UHF transponder “MELACOM” (401-437 MHz) and 2 patch antennas to communicate with any landed asset on Mars surface supporting the CCSDS Proximity-1 protocol.

Read the paper Mars Express and the NASA landers and rovers on Mars - Sustaining a backup relay in an interplanetary network http://www.spaceops2012.org/proceedings/documents/id1295328-Paper-003.pdf

73 Trevor M5AKA

--- On Mon, 6/8/12, Trevor . m5aka@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

The Operations Manager at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex VK1ALR was interviewed by the Canberra Times newspaper, see

See http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=9407

N8MH to speak at AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium, Guildford, Sept. 15-16 http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=9388