Modem Module Development for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft: Achieving FSO Communications Over Lunar Distances

David J. Geisler

doi:10.1364/OFC.2020.Th3J.1

Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2020
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2020),
paper Th3J.1
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2020.Th3J.1

Modem Module Development for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft: Achieving FSO Communications Over Lunar Distances

David J. Geisler

Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2020

San Diego, California United States
8–12 March 2020
ISBN: 978-1-943580-71-2

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Abstract

NASA’s Orion spacecraft will employ free-space optical communications over 400,000-km from the lunar vicinity to Earth, using an 80-Mb/s downlink and a 20-Mb/s uplink. This paper discusses an overview of the link and optical modem.

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