The Mars Laser Communications Demonstration Project completed a preliminary system design for sending data at 1-30 Mbps from a spacecraft orbiting Mars. The flight transceiver diameter was 30.6 cm, transmitting 5 W average laser power at 1064 nm and using 32- and 64-ary pulse position modulation (PPM). A ground network comprised of two receive terminals (5-m and 1.6-m effective diameter) and two transmit terminals for sending 1076 nm lasers would have been used to communicate with the transceiver.


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    Title :

    Mars laser communication demonstration: what it would have been


    Contributors:
    Biswas, A. (author) / Boroson, D. (author) / Edwards, B. (author)

    Conference:

    Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies XVIII ; 2006 ; San Jose,California,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2006-02-10





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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