The Ground/Orbiter Lasercomm Demonstration (GOLD) is an optical communications demonstration between the Japanese Engineering Test Satellite (ETS-V1) and an optical ground transmitting and receiving station at the Table Mountain FAcility in Wrightwood California. Laser transmissions to the satellite are performed approximately four hours every third night when the satellite is at apogee above Table Mountain.


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    Title :

    Preliminary Results of the Ground/Orbiter Lasercomm Demonstration Experiment between Table Mountain and teh ETS-V1 Satellite


    Contributors:
    Wilson, K. E. (author) / Lesh, J. R. (author) / Araki, K. (author) / Arimoto, Y. (author)

    Publication date :

    1996-01-31


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English