Pulsar Timing with NICER

Develop and demonstrate Deep Space Network (DSN) capabilities to provide Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) with robust timing solutions for pulsars observable in both hemispheres. Goal is navigation experiment with NICER using high cadence Crab Pulsar observations to reduce initial orbit determination uncertainty.

Enhances navigation performance via reduced initial orbit determination uncertainty.

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