This paper provides an overview of the planned concept of operations for the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Project (LCRD), a joint project among NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (JPL), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory (MIT/LL). LCRD will provide at least two years of bi-directional optical communications at user data rates of up to 1.244 Gbps in an operational environment. The project lays the groundwork for establishing communications architecture and protocols, and developing the communications hardware and support infrastructure, concluding in a demonstration of optical communications' potential to meet NASA's growing need for higher data rates for future science and exploration missions. A pair of flight optical communications terminals will reside on a single commercial communications satellite in geostationary orbit; the two ground optical communications terminals will be located in Southern California and Hawaii. This paper summarizes the current LCRD architecture and key systems for the demonstration, focusing on what it will take to operate an optical communications relay that can support space-to-space, space-to-air, and space-to-ground optical links.


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    Titel :

    A Day in the Life of the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Project


    Beteiligte:
    Edwards, Bernard (Autor:in) / Israel, David (Autor:in) / Caroglanian, Armen (Autor:in) / Spero, James (Autor:in) / Roberts, Tom (Autor:in) / Moores, John (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Space Ops 2016 ; 2016 ; Daejeon, Korea, Republic of


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2016-05-16


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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