Over the last couple of years, NASA has been making changes to the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Project (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). The changes made makes LCRD more like a future Earth relay system that has both high speed optical and radio frequency links. This will allow LCRD to demonstrate a more detailed concept of operations for a future operational mission critical Earth relay. LCRD is expected to launch in June 2019 and is expected to be followed a couple of years later with a prototype user terminal on the International Space Station. LCRD's architecture will allow it to serve as a testbed in space and this paper will provide an update of its planned capabilities and experiments.


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    Title :

    Latest Changes to NASA's Laser Communication Relay Demonstration Project


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SPIE Photonics West 2018 Conference ; 2018 ; San Francisco, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2018-01-27


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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