Overview of the NASA/JPL Lasercom program

Space Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 65-70

  Lesh, James R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; SATELLITE LINKS; TRANSCEIVERS;

ATMOSPHERIC VISIBILITY MONITORING PROGRAM;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032310463     PISSN: 09248625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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