For deep space optical communications, optical telescopes located above the Earth's atmosphere would have significant performance advantages over telescopes mounted on the Earth's surface. Link outages due to cloud cover would be eliminated, atmospheric attenuation would be eliminated, and signal degradation due to stray light would be reduced. A study has been conducted to compare various exo-atmospheric platforms for the Earth end of the optical link.
Exo-atmospheric telescopes for Deep Space Optical Communications
2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 2006 ; Big Sky, MT, United States
2006-03-01
Conference paper
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English
Deep-Space Optical Communications
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