NASA NTRS · 20150007779
The Lunar Laser OCTL Terminal (LLOT)
Abstract
The NASA owned Optical Communication Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) telescope located at Table Mountain, CA is being readied as a backup ground station for the upcoming Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD). The backup ground terminal is called the Lunar Laser OCTL Terminal (LLOT). The 1-m diameter telescope will be configured as a mono-static transceiver for transmitting a laser beacon and receiving downlink at a data-rate of 39 Mb/s. Interfaces to an operations center with near-real time exchange of monitored data at OCTL will also be developed. A system level overview of this backup ground station for LLCD will be presented.
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Biswas, Abhijit, Kovalik, Joseph M.. 2013-02-02. The Lunar Laser OCTL Terminal (LLOT). https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20150007779
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