Overview of the mars laser communications demonstraton project

AIAA Space 2003 Conference and Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Edwards, Bernard L ^a   Townes, Stephen A ^b   Bondurant, Roy S ^c   Scozzafava, Joseph J ^c   Boroson, Don M ^c   Roberts, William T ^b   Biswas, Abhijit ^b   Pillsbury, Alen D ^c   Khatri, Farzana I ^c   Burnside, Jamie W ^c   Bold, David R ^c   Murphy, Daniel V ^c   McIntosh, Alexander K ^c   Caplan, David O ^c   DeCew, Alan E ^c   Sharma, Jayant ^c   Parvin, Ben A ^b   Fitzgerald, Richard J ^a   Zingales, Samuel H ^b   Depaula, Ramon ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS; CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES; GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; MARS LASER COMMUNICATION; MARS TELECOM ORBITERS; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY;

SPACE FLIGHT;

NASA;

EID: 84897585648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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