NASA NTRS · 20060043161
Exo-atmospheric telescopes for deep space optical communications
Abstract
For 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 could cover would be eliminated, atmospheric attenuation would be eliminated, and signal degradation due to stray light would be reduced.
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Hurd, William J., MacNeal, Bruce E., Ortiz, Gerardo G., Cheng, Edward S., Moe, Rud V., Walker, Jon Z., Fairbrother, Debora A., Dennis, Michael L., Eegholm, Bente, Kasunic, Keith J.. 2006-03-01. Exo-atmospheric telescopes for deep space optical communications. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20060043161
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