This paper provides the status of the Mars Laser Communication Demonstration Project, a joint project between NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the Massachusetts Institute of Tecnology Lincoln Laboratory (MIT/LL). It reviews the current ideas/designs for the flight and ground segments, the critical technologies required, adn the concept of operations. The laser communication (lasercom) flight terminal will be flown on the Mars Telecom Orbiter (MTO) to be launched by NASA in 2009, and will demonstrate a technology which has the potential of vastly improving NASA's ability to communicate throughout the solar system.
The Mars laser communication demonstration
2004-03-01
Preprint
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English
The Mars laser communication demonstration
IEEE | 2004
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|Overview of the Mars Laser Communications Demonstration Project
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2003
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