Jet Propulsion Laboratory / MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory / Applied Technology Associates / USA 3MlT Lincoln Laboratory / Technology Lincoln Laboratory / USA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Draper Laboratory / Air Force Phillips Laboratory / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
Japan / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Facility
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory / Earth terminal / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Modulated Beacon / THEMLCD FLIGHT TERMINAL / Bright beacon / Mechanical Configuration The Mars terminal / Earth Receive Terminal / California Institute of Technology / Mars terminal / Califomia Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
high rate optical communications / long-haul communications services / lasercom systems / space communications / Low frequency isolation systems / performance communications / Lower resonant frequency systems / post-detection electronics / important conditioning electronics / control hardware / possible solution / fiber telecommunications industry / extreme communications challenges / mature infrastructure / mature technologies / optical communications / communications wavelengths / electronics module / digital signal processing / /
NaturalFeature
Palomar Mountain / PPM channel / /
Organization
California Institute of Technology / Magnetohydrodynamic Inertial Reference Unit / NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Califomia Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Small Optics Assembly / African Union / Inertial Pseudo-Star Reference Unit / US Federal Reserve / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / /
Person
Hale Telescope / Daniel V / Roy S. Bondurant / Abhijit Biswas / Richard J. Fitzgerald / /
Position
critical design driver / Time PAT Controller Terminal Controller / optical designer / representative / Forward / /
Product
Earth terminal / Earth / /
ProgrammingLanguage
DC / ML / /
ProvinceOrState
Maryland / Massachusetts / /
Technology
space communications / optical fiber / Laser / Deep Space Network / /
The Mars Laser Communication Demonstration* Stephen A. Townes2, Bemard L. Edwards’, Abhijit Biswas’, David R. Bold3, Roy S. Bondurant’, Don Boroson3, Jamie W. Bumside3, David 0. Caplan3,Alan E. DeCew3, Ramon DePaul