The Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration: NASA’s First Step Toward Very High Data Rate Support of Science and Exploration Missions

Future NASA missions for both Science and Exploration will have needs for much higher data rates than are presently available, even with NASA’s highly-capable Space- and Deep-Space Networks. As a first step towards this end, for one month in late 2013, NASA’s Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Boroson, Don M, Robinson, Bryan S
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105850