Overview and Design of the DOT Flight Laser Transceiver

William H. Farr, M. W. Regehr, Malcolm W. Wright, Doug Sheldon, Adit Sahasrabudhe, Jonathan Gin, Dan T. Nguyen

IPNPR · 2011 · 10 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

The Flight Laser Transceiver (FLT) is the space-based subsystem of the Deep- space Optical Terminals (DOT) project. The FLT supports retirement of all major risks for deployment of operational deep-space optical communications at ranges out to about 5 AU. Architecture, key requirements, major trades results, selected concept design, required tech- nology maturation, and future scalability are discussed.

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