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Link Budget

These are the basic system calculations. An interactive spreadsheet is available at the following link: Link Budget

Basic constants from the link design

System specifications and Attenuations

Probe Antenna Receive Characteristics

Probe Antenna Transmit Characteristics

Uplink Budget

Downlink Budget

[1] Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Telecommunications and Mission Operations Directorate, "DSMS Telecommunications Link Design Handbook," Rev. E, 2000.

[2] Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "Mission Concept Study: Planetary Science Decadal Survey: Mars Geophysical Network," California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2010, p. 56.

[3] J. M. Jenkins, "Variations in the 13 cm Opacity below the Main Cloud Layer in the Atmosphere of Venus Inferred from Pioneer-Venus Radio Occultation Studies 1978-1987," Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992.