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Exo-atmospheric telescopes for Deep Space Optical CommunicationsFor deep space optical communications, optical telescopes located above the Earth's atmosphere would have significant performance advantages over telescopes mounted on the Earth's surface. Link outages due to cloud cover would be eliminated, atmospheric attenuation would be eliminated, and signal degradation due to stray light would be reduced. A study has been conducted to compare various exo-atmospheric platforms for the Earth end of the optical link.
Document ID
20060043266
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Hurd, William J.
Moe, Rud V.
Dennis, Michael L.
MacNeal, Bruce E.
Walker, Jon Z.
Ortiz, Gerardo G.
Eegholm, Bente
Fairbrother, debora A.
Cheng, Edward S.
Kasunic, Keith J.
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
March 1, 2006
Subject Category
Communications And Radar
Meeting Information
Meeting: 2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference
Location: Big Sky, MT
Country: United States
Start Date: March 4, 2006
End Date: March 11, 2006
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
orbiting optical terminal
optical communications

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