Simultaneous laser ranging and communication from an Earth-based satellite laser ranging station to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in lunar orbit

We report a free space laser communication experiment from the satellite laser ranging (SLR) station at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in lunar orbit through the on board one-way Laser Ranging (LR) receiver. Pseudo random data and sample image files...

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Main Authors: Sun, Xiaoli (Author), Skillman, David R. (Author), Hoffman, Evan D. (Author), Mao, Dandan (Author), McGarry, Jan F. (Author), Neumann, Gregory A. (Author), McIntire, Leva (Author), Zellar, Ronald S. (Author), Davidson, Frederic M. (Author), Fong, Wai H. (Author), Krainak, Michael A. (Author), Zuber, Maria (Contributor), Smith, David Edmund (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SPIE, 2014-03-21T19:48:50Z.
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