[time-nuts] time sync by moonbounce

[jimlux]

On 5/23/20 8:19 AM, Jeremy Nichols wrote:
> Sufficiently interesting that I bought a paper copy through Abebooks. Looks
> like a somewhat later version, author given as Douglas Mudgway, title
> “ Uplink-Downlink:
> A History of the Deep Space Network 1957-1997.” “Oversized,” 674
> pages. Abebooks
> lists a couple dozen copies in both hardback and paperback at prices from
> reasonable to ridiculous, as is usual for bookstores.


Different author (The report I pointed to is by William Corliss), but 
perhaps the same source material, (at least up to 1975)

it's available as a downloadable pdf, theoretically (although the link 
is to the cover page only) - I'll talk to the site owner and get that fixed.
https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/history/dsnHistory.html
(there's a version here: 
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20020033033.pdf)

The second link on the dsnhistory page, to a list of references, is 
something you might find interesting.


There's a set of books published by JPL at
https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/

Various series.. Some are not particularly time-nutty, but some are - 
I'd look for things on radiometric tracking and nav.

Here's a whole series on it: 
https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/evolution/evolution.html  - not much 
technical detail in the paper, more a history of what was done when, but 
the papers in the references might be useful.