In 2015, the Earth Regimes Network Evolution Study (ERNESt) proposed an architectural concept and technologies that evolve to enable space science and exploration missions out to the 2040 timeframe. The architectural concept evolves the current instantiations of the Near Earth Network and Space Network with new technologies to provide a global communication and navigation network that provides communication and navigation services to a wide range of space users in the near Earth domain. The technologies included High Rate Optical Communications, Optical Multiple Access (OMA), Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN), User Initiated Services (UIS), and advanced Position, Navigation, and Timing technology. This paper describes the key technologies and their current technology readiness levels. Examples of science missions that could be enabled by the technologies and the projected operational benefits of the architecture concept to missions are also described.


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    Title :

    Enabling Communication and Navigation Technologies for Future Near Earth Science Missions


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    Conference:

    SpaceOps 2016 ; 2016 ; Daejeon, Korea, Republic of


    Publication date :

    2016-05-16


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


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    No indication


    Language :

    English





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