KEYWORDS: Calibration, Antennas, Phase measurement, Space operations, Atmospheric turbulence, Atmospheric modeling, Turbulence, S band, X band, Signal attenuation
It is the technical difficulty of uplink antenna arraying that signals from various quarters can not be automatically
aligned at the target in deep space. The size of the far-field power combining gain is directly determined by the accuracy
of carrier phase calibration. It is necessary to analyze the entire arraying system in order to improve the accuracy of the
phase calibration. This paper analyzes the factors affecting the calibration error of carrier phase of uplink antenna
arraying system including the error of phase measurement and equipment, the error of the uplink channel phase shift, the
position error of ground antenna, calibration receiver and target spacecraft, the error of the atmospheric turbulence
disturbance. Discuss the spatial and temporal autocorrelation model of atmospheric disturbances. Each antenna of the
uplink antenna arraying is no common reference signal for continuous calibration. So it must be a system of the periodic
calibration. Calibration is refered to communication of one or more spacecrafts in a certain period. Because the deep
space targets are not automatically aligned to multiplexing received signal. Therefore the aligned signal should be done
in advance on the ground. Data is shown that the error can be controlled within the range of demand by the use of
existing technology to meet the accuracy of carrier phase calibration. The total error can be controlled within a
reasonable range.
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