The Status of Ka-Band Communications for Future Deep Space Missions
Charles D. Edwards, L. J. Deutsch, Mark S. Gatti, J. W. Layland, J.D. Perret, C. T. Stelzried · NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA) · 1997
Over the past decade, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Telecommunications and Mission Operations Directorate has invested in a variety of technologies, targeted at both the flight and ground sides of the communications link, with the goal of developing a Ka-band (32 GHz) communications capability for future deep space missions.