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A lunar surface systems study explores the application of optical communications to support a high bandwidth data link from a lunar relay satellite and from fixed lunar assets. The results show that existing 1-m ground stations could provide more than 99% coverage of the lunar terminal at 100Mb/s data rates from a lunar relay satellite and in excess of 200Mb/s from a fixed terminal on the lunar surface...
The anticipated return to the Moon will require high bandwidth communications support for both manned and unmanned operations. This is especially true in down links from the Moon to the Earth that will consist of both data and images from multiple sources. An optical data link consisting of a 1 Watt laser on the Moon, transmitted through a 1 meter aperture and received on the Earth by a 1 meter aperture...
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