PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 PRODUCT_VERSION_ID = "1.0" RECORD_TYPE = UNDEFINED MISSION_NAME = "MESSENGER" INSTRUMENT_HOST_NAME = "MESSENGER" INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID = "MESS" INSTRUMENT_NAME = "RADIO SCIENCE SUBSYSTEM" INSTRUMENT_ID = "RSS" DSN_STATION_NUMBER = 25 TARGET_NAME = "MERCURY" DATA_SET_ID = "MESS-V/H-RSS-1-EDR-RAWDATA-V1.0" PRODUCER_ID = "DSN" PRODUCT_ID = "092811400SC236DSS25DDOR_234" PRODUCT_TYPE = TNF FILE_NAME = "092811400SC236DSS25DDOR_234.DAT" PRODUCT_CREATION_TIME = 2009-295T21:22:19 MISSION_PHASE_NAME = "MERCURY 3 FLYBY" START_TIME = 2009-281T13:52:00 STOP_TIME = 2009-281T22:30:59 SPACECRAFT_CLOCK_START_COUNT = "N/A" SPACECRAFT_CLOCK_STOP_COUNT = "N/A" DESCRIPTION = " Delta-Differential One-way Range (D-DOR) measurements compliment the normal Doppler and ranging data, which are best along the Earth-spacecraft line. D-DOR measurements provide measurements orthogonal to the Earth-spacecraft line, a measurement that is only inferred indirectly from Doppler and ranging measurements. The D-DOR measurements are largely independent of some common tracking and navigation errors such as media, station locations, UT1 and polar motion. D-DORs are the difference between two Very Long Baseline Interferometer (VLBI) measurements of the spacecraft and a nearby quasar. In essence, this ties Earth-spacecraft direction to a quasar location in the plane-of-sky. This achieves highly-accurate measurements of the location of the spacecraft perpendicular to the line of sight, or the angular (not range) location of the spacecraft with respect to Earth. Accuracies can be 10 nanoradians (1.5 km at 1AU) or better. A single D-DOR determines angle relative to one baseline. To get both declination and azimuth (location in two dimensions) requires different baselines such as Madrid-Goldstone (east-west) and Goldstone-Canberra (north-south). Format and content of the TNF data product are documented in: 820-013 Deep Space Mission System (DSMS) External Interface Specification JPL D-16765 TRK-2-34 DSMS Tracking System Data Archival Format Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 Revision J: May 31, 2007 The PDS label described in Appendix B of the above document is inconsistent with current archiving standards of the Planetary Data System. It has been replaced by the label you are now reading. For more information, see Planetary Data System Standards Reference (version 3.8) JPL Publication D-7669, Part 2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 Background information on the radiometric system may be found in: Formulation for Observed and Computed Values of Deep Space Network Data Types for Navigation by Theodore D. Moyer JPL Publication 00-7, October 2000 Monograph 2, Deep Space Communications and Navigation Series Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109-8099" NOTE = "The binary D-DOR TNF data begin at byte 494 from the beginning of the file. The data are preceded by 15 lines of text header containing metadata and CCSDS markers." END