This paper provides a concept for an evolution of NASA's optical communications near Earth relay architecture. NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD), a joint project between 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 a minimum of two years of high data rate optical communications service experiments in geosynchronous orbit (GEO), following launch in 2019. This paper will provide an update of the LCRD mission status and planned capabilities and experiments, followed by a discussion of the path from LCRD to operational network capabilities.


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    Title :

    Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) update and the path towards optical relay operations


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    Publication date :

    2017-03-01


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    484537 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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