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The Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research.
Ninth planet from the sun, sometimes classified as a small terrestrial planet.
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In describing the tracking motion of an AZ-EL or ALT-AZ mounted radio telescope, to "plunge" means to exceed 90° in elevation and then to continue tracking as elevation decreases on the other side without swiveling around in azimuth. This is not a capability of DSN antennas.
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A circuitry in telecommunications technology that generates an output signal whose phase is related to the phase of the input "reference" signal. It is an electronic circuit consisting of a variable frequency oscillator and a phase detector that compares the phase of the signal derived from the oscillator to an input signal.
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Electrically conductive fourth state of matter (other than solid, liquid, or gas), consisting of ions and electrons.
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The angular distance between peaks or troughs of two waveforms of similar frequency.
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