We eport on engineering trades that led to the conceptual design of a laser communications terminal for spacecraft probing Mars. The flight terminal, the ground receiver and the ground transmitter subsystems are described. The flight terminal point design has 0.25 Gb/s downlink data-rate capability from the Mars close distance (0.42 AU). Capability for uplink data-rate of 0.3 Mb/s and ranging with 30 cm precision are also addressed.


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    Title :

    Deep-Space Optical Terminals


    Contributors:
    Hemmati, H. (author) / Farr, W. H. (author) / Biswas, A. (author) / Birnbaum, K. M. (author) / Roberts, W. T. (author) / Quirk, K. (author) / Townes, S. (author)

    Conference:

    2011 IEEE International Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS) ; 2011 ; Santa Monica, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2011-05-15


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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