The Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration represents NASA's first attempt to demonstrate optical communications from a lunar orbiting spacecraft to an Earth-based ground receiver. A low size, weight and power optical terminal will be integrated onto the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft, presently scheduled to launch in 2013. LLCD will demonstrate duplex optical communications between this small space terminal and a multi-aperture photon-counting ground terminal at downlink data rates of up to 622 Mbps and uplink data rates of up to 20 Mbps.


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    Title :

    The lunar laser communications demonstration


    Contributors:
    Robinson, B S (author) / Boroson, D M (author) / Burianek, D A (author) / Murphy, D V (author)


    Publication date :

    2011-05-01


    Size :

    659192 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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