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Abstract
The deployment of advanced hyperspectral imaging and other Earth sensing instruments onboard Earth observing satellites is driving the demand for high-datarate communications. Optical communications meet the required data rates with small, low-mass, and low-power communications packages. JPL, as NASA’s lead center in optical communications, plans to construct a 1-m Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) at its Table Mountain Facility (TMF) located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California at an altitude of 2.29 km. The design of the building has been completed, and the construction contractor has been selected. Groundbreaking is expected to start at the beginning of the 1999 TMF construction season. A request for proposal (RFP) has been issued for the procurement of the telescope system. Prior to releasing the RFP, we conducted a request for information with industry for the telescope system. Several vendors responded favorably and provided information on key elements of the proposed design. These inputs were considered in developing the final requirements in the RFP.
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- Volume
- 42-138
- Published
- August 15, 1999
- Pages
- 1–6
- File Size
- 318.1 KB