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Very large base interferometry - high-precision measurements of Earth, stellar bodies' and spacecraft parameters based on combining signals received by an array of spatially separated radio telescopes.
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How does a third DSN station serves as a “relay” to tie-together observations by two other stations doing VLBI?
Section 2.1 of the DESCANSO document 211 Wideband Very-Long Baseline Interferometry (from here, found here) says:
The precision of a VLBI measurement improves with the length of the baseline. The ...