The Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD)
NASA is presently overseeing a project to create the world's first free-space laser communications system that can be operated over a range ten times larger than the near-earth ranges that have been demonstrated to date. To be flown on the lunar atmosphere and dust environment explorer (LADEE),...
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| author | Boroson, Don M. Scozzafava, Joseph J. Murphy, Daniel V. Robinson, Bryan S. Shaw, H. |
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| description | NASA is presently overseeing a project to create the world's first free-space laser communications system that can be operated over a range ten times larger than the near-earth ranges that have been demonstrated to date. To be flown on the lunar atmosphere and dust environment explorer (LADEE), which is planned for launch by NASA in 2012, it will demonstrate high-rate laser communications from lunar orbit to a transportable ground terminal on the Earth. To support up to 622 Mbps over the approximately 400 thousand kilometer link, the system will make use of a high peak power doped fiber transmitter, a hybrid pointing and tracking system, high efficiency modulation and coding techniques, superconducting photon counting detectors, and a scalable optical collector architecture. It also will support up to 20 Mbps on the optical uplink, plus a highly accurate continuous two-way time of flight measurement capability with the potential to perform ranging with sub-centimeter accuracy to the moving spacecraft. The project is being undertaken by MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MIT/LL) and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/616732022-09-26T11:48:54Z The Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD) Boroson, Don M. Scozzafava, Joseph J. Murphy, Daniel V. Robinson, Bryan S. Shaw, H. Lincoln Laboratory Boroson, Don M. Boroson, Don M. Scozzafava, Joseph J. Murphy, Daniel V. Robinson, Bryan S. NASA is presently overseeing a project to create the world's first free-space laser communications system that can be operated over a range ten times larger than the near-earth ranges that have been demonstrated to date. To be flown on the lunar atmosphere and dust environment explorer (LADEE), which is planned for launch by NASA in 2012, it will demonstrate high-rate laser communications from lunar orbit to a transportable ground terminal on the Earth. To support up to 622 Mbps over the approximately 400 thousand kilometer link, the system will make use of a high peak power doped fiber transmitter, a hybrid pointing and tracking system, high efficiency modulation and coding techniques, superconducting photon counting detectors, and a scalable optical collector architecture. It also will support up to 20 Mbps on the optical uplink, plus a highly accurate continuous two-way time of flight measurement capability with the potential to perform ranging with sub-centimeter accuracy to the moving spacecraft. The project is being undertaken by MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MIT/LL) and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Air Force Contract F19628-00-C-0002) 2011-03-11T16:34:50Z 2011-03-11T16:34:50Z 2009-08 2009-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-0-7695-3637-8 INSPEC Accession Number: 10844762 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61673 Boroson, D.M. et al. “The Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD).” Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology, 2009. SMC-IT 2009. Third IEEE International Conference on. 2009. 23-28. © 2009 IEEE. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SMC-IT.2009.57 Third IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology, 2009. SMC-IT 2009 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE |
| spellingShingle | Boroson, Don M. Scozzafava, Joseph J. Murphy, Daniel V. Robinson, Bryan S. Shaw, H. The Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD) |
| title | The Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD) |
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