Publication Date:
2011-08-24
Description:
A development history, current status, and prospective development account are given for deep-space optical communications, giving attention to overall systems-related activities and to the generic technology developments required for their implementation. An account is given of the progression envisioned from laboratory subsystems demonstrations to the full-scale flight experiment for the Mars Communications Relay Orbiter missions.
Keywords:
SPACE COMMUNICATIONS, SPACECRAFT COMMUNICATIONS, COMMAND AND TRACKING
Type:
In: Optical space communication II; Proceedings of the Meeting, Munich, Germany, June 10, 11, 1991 (A93-32077 12-17); p. 27-35.
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