Engineering prof gets NASA grant
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has made a $50,000 grant to Louis L. Bailin, chairman of the electrical engineering department at KU, to coordinate a national committee of antenna experts in a feasibility study for a deep space communications antenna system.
The grant is part of $1,167,046 in grants and contracts awarded recently by NASA to 20 universities, colleges, and private research foundations.
BAILIN SAID a committee of 10 other experts from government laboratories and universities will study the figurations, elements and techniques that will be required for construction of a large ground antenna. The study phase
of the program will take one year after which recommendations will be made to NASA.
The antenna will enable scientists on earth to communicate with unmanned and later with manned spacecraft at distances up to 930 million miles. This is ten-times the distance between the sun and the earth. The antenna will be designed on the S-Band frequency and will be almost square in shape, about 1,000 feet on a side, Bailin explained.
"An initial study of this project is necessary," Bailin said, "since we not only want to communicate with our spacecraft over an astronomical distance, but also we wish to attain a high data rate, somewhere between 1 million and
100 million bits of information per second."
BAILIN POINTED OUT that the United States" "fly-by Mars probe" of a few years ago provided only two to three bits of information per second.
Bailin, who has done much research in high performance antenna systems, considers this project a major step toward deep space communications. He has been involved in the original
planning of deep space communications techniques previously conducted by various industrial firms.
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