Overview and status of the lunar laser communications demonstration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8246, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Boroson, D M ^a   Robinson, B S ^a   Burianek, D A ^a   Murphy, D V ^a   Biswas, A ^b  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep space communications; Free space optical communications; Photon counting receiver

Indexed keywords

DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; DUST ENVIRONMENT; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; GROUND RECEIVERS; GROUND TERMINALS; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; LINCOLN LABORATORY; TIME OF FLIGHT MEASUREMENTS;

INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; MOON; NASA; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84859562233     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.914801     Document Type: Conference Paper

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