Design of the frequency and timing subsystem for ESA's Deep Space Antenna 3

In December 2012, ESA inaugurated their third Deep Space Antenna tracking station near Malargüe, Argentina. Due to the nature of the deep space operations, exigent requirements for stability of reference signals and low phase noise characteristics were necessary on the ground station equipment. In order to fulfill the requirements, new concepts and hardware development were carried out, resulting in an improvement of the performance of the frequency and timing reference system.