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<title>Description of STRV-2 lasercom flight hardware</title>

1997; SPIE; Volume: 2990; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.273708

1996-756X

Eric J. Korevaar, John J. Schuster, Prasanna Adhikari, Harel Hakakha, Richard Ruigrok, Ron Stieger, Lee Fletcher, Brian Riley,

Optical Wireless Communication Technologies

Laser communication hardware being built under funding from the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization will be flown on the Space Technology Research Vehicle 2 to be launched as part of Air Force mission TSX-5 in 1998. The flight hardware, which weighs 31.5 pounds and is designed for satellite-to-ground laser communications at data rates up to 1.24 Gb/s and ranges up to 2000 km, will be delivered to JPL for integration in March, 1997. It is hoped that a successful satellite demonstration will validate the capability and readiness of lasercom for inter-satellite crosslinks and low Earth Orbit satellite downlinks to the ground. This paper describes the hardware with photographs.