Free space laser communication experiments from Earth to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in lunar orbit

Laser communication and ranging experiments were successfully conducted from the satellite laser ranging (SLR) station at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in lunar orbit. The experiments used 4096-ary pulse position modulation (PPM) for the laser puls...

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Main Authors: Sun, Xiaoli, Skillman, David R., Hoffman, Evan D., Mao, Dandan, McGarry, Jan F., McIntire, Leva, Zellar, Ronald S., Davidson, Frederic M., Fong, Wai H., Krainak, Michael A., Neumann, Gregory A., Zuber, Maria, Smith, David Edmund
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86032
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2652-8017