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Optical Communications Operations Concept for the Artemis II Crewed Mission to the MoonNASA’s Artemis II mission includes an optical communication payload, affectionately known on board as “OpCom,” which is part of NASA’s Orion Artemis II Optical Communications (O2O) demonstration. We describe the OpCom system architecture and operations concept.
Document ID
20230000347
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Farzana I Khatri
(MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington, Massachusetts, United States)
Michael Bay
(Bay Engineering Innovations, Inc.)
Jonathon King
(Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas, United States)
Jessica Chang
(MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington, Massachusetts, United States)
Terry Hudson
(KBR (United States) Houston, Texas, United States)
Robert T Schulein
(MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington, Massachusetts, United States)
Olga Mikulina
(MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington, Massachusetts, United States)
Jeffrey J Zinchuk
(Bay Engineering Innovations, Inc.)
Robert J McGraw
(MTI Systems, Inc.)
Jacob Gregory
(Bay Engineering Innovations, Inc.)
Paul W Gramm
(Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas, United States)
Nikki M Desch
(Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
Steven J Horowitz
(Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
Bryan S Robinson
(MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington, Massachusetts, United States)
Date Acquired
January 10, 2023
Subject Category
Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking
Meeting Information
Meeting: SPIE Photonics West
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: US
Start Date: January 28, 2023
End Date: February 2, 2023
Sponsors: International Society for Optics and Photonics
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG16VR06I
CONTRACT_GRANT: FA8721-05-C-0002
CONTRACT_GRANT: FA8702-15-D-0001
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Portions of document may include copyright protected material.
Technical Review
External Peer Committee
Keywords
laser communications
optical
Artemis
O2O
Moon
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