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A microwave travelling wave tube amplifier named for its process of Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Compare with ...

A fundamental property of an object comprising a numerical measure of its inertia; the amount of matter in the object.

A word used to describe anything that contains mass.

Mission Control and Computing Center at JPL (outdated).

DSN's maximum-likelyhood convolutional decoder, the decoder.

Mission Control Team, JPL Section 368 mission execution real-time operations.

DSN's Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Spain.

Time based on an average of the variations caused by Earth's non-circular orbit. The 24-hour day is based on mean ...

First planet from the sun, a terrestrial planet.

A meridian is an imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole, connecting all locations sharing ...