Delete comment from: Ken Shirriff's blog
I don’t know if everybody realises that the USB system was designed by JPL, and first used on DSN missions, such as Surveyor. The main designer was Pete Lindley, and he came to Tidbinbilla for the first real life use of the Mk1 Ranging System during Surveyor 1. The Apollo system was identical to the DSN’s, except for VCO’s.
And on a slightly different subject, the MSFN also generated “3 way” Doppler data at listening stations. I don’t know how useful that data was in trajectory computation.
Angle data was hardly used at all
Mike Dinn - ex DSN and MSFN
Apr 29, 2022, 3:58:32 AM
Posted to The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft