This paper provides an overview of pointing control design for NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) system. DSOC is NASA’s first deep-space laser communications system and includes both a ground system and a space terminal. This paper focus on the pointing control system design and related issues for the Flight Laser Transceiver (FLT), including its key subsystems and components that support the space terminal pointing and control, its operational concept and sequence design, and its control systems design and related analyses. The paper also provides an overview of the achievable system pointing performance that meets the DSOC pointing control design requirements.


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    Title :

    Deep-space Optical Communications Pointing Control Design


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    Publication date :

    2022-02-03


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

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    Language :

    English



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