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Optical Link Study Group (OLSG) Final Report IOAG.T.OLSG.2012.V1 Membership of the Interagency Operations Advisory Group (IOAG) Optical Link Study Group (OLSG) Co-chairmen: Klaus-Juergen Schulz John Rush ESA ESOC NASA HQ Members: Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) Jean-Luc Issler Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Nicolas Perlot (DLR- Institut für Kommunikation und Navigation [IKN]) European Space Agency (ESA) Massimo Bertinelli (ESTEC) Robert Daddato (ESOC) Maria Montagna (ESOC) Josep Perdiguez (ESTEC) Luitjens Popken (ESTEC) Zoran Sodnik (ESTEC) Paul Van Loock (ESTEC) Igor Zayer (ESOC) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Shinichi Inagawa (Mar. 2012 - Jun. 2012) Tatsuya Mukai (Jan. 2011 - Feb. 2012) Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Durk-Jong Park National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Randall Alliss (HQ/Northrop Grumman) Lena Braatz (HQ/Booz Allen Hamilton) Kimberly Cashin (HQ/Booz Allen Hamilton) Bernard Edwards (GSFC) Daniel Felton (HQ/Northrop Grumman) Andrew Fletcher (HQ/MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Hamid Hemmati (JPL) Karen Jarratt (HQ) Kenneth Perko (HQ) Sabino Piazzolla (JPL) Fabrizio Pollara (JPL) Stephen Townes (JPL) The OLSG would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions to this analysis: Bjoern Guetlich (DLR Space Administration) and Robert Lange (DLR Space Administration/Tesat) for the TerraSar-X and Alphasat descriptions, Andreas Kaufer (European Southern Observatory, ESO) for the La Silla terminal hosting discussion, and Karl Ulrich Schreiber (Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie, BKG) for the Wetzell laser ranging uplink safety and operations concept discussion. Page | 2
Optical Link Study Group (OLSG) Final Report IOAG.T.OLSG.2012.V1 Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... 6 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 10 1.1 Charter ...................................................................................................................... 10 1.2 Motivation ................................................................................................................ 10 1.3 Scope ........................................................................................................................ 10 1.4 Methodology ............................................................................................................ 11 2 Space-Earth Mission Scenarios: Basic Concept of Operations ...................................... 13 2.1 Concept of Operations ............................................................................................. 13 2.1.1 Driving Factors in a ConOps .................................................................................. 13 2.2 Mission ConOps ........................................................................................................ 14 2.2.1 Line of Sight .......................................................................................................... 14 2.2.2 Acquisition ............................................................................................................ 16 2.2.3 Data Transfer ........................................................................................................ 17 2.3 Space Link Design ..................................................................................................... 17 2.3.1 Downlink ............................................................................................................... 17 2.3.2 Uplink (Beacon) .................................................................................................... 23 2.3.3 Modulation and Detection ................................................................................... 28 2.3.4 Operating With Small Sun Angles ......................................................................... 28 2.4 ConOps Basic Elements in Any Optical Communications Scenario ......................... 30 2.4.1 Space Terminal ..................................................................................................... 30 2.4.2 Ground Terminal ................................................................................................... 31 2.4.3 Space Relay Terminal ............................................................................................ 32 2.4.4 Mission Operations Center ................................................................................... 32 2.4.5 Weather and Atmospheric Monitoring Equipment ............................................. 33 3 Space-Earth Mission Scenarios ...................................................................................... 37 3.1 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Scenario ................................................................................ 37 3.1.1 Concept of Operations.......................................................................................... 37 3.1.2 Space Terminal ..................................................................................................... 42 3.1.3 Ground Terminal ................................................................................................... 51 3.1.4 CFLOS Analysis ...................................................................................................... 53 3.1.5 Link Budget ........................................................................................................... 57 3.1.6 Ground Station Cost ............................................................................................. 59 3.1.7 Business Case ........................................................................................................ 60 3.2 Highly Elliptical Earth Orbit (HEO) Scenario ............................................................. 61 3.3 Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) Scenario ............................................................... 61 3.4 Lunar Scenario .......................................................................................................... 61 3.4.1 Concept of Operations.......................................................................................... 61 3.4.2 Space Terminal ..................................................................................................... 66 3.4.3 Ground Terminal ................................................................................................... 67 3.4.4 CFLOS Analysis ...................................................................................................... 67 3.4.5 Link Budget ........................................................................................................... 69 3.4.6 Ground Station Cost ............................................................................................. 72 3.4.7 Business Case ........................................................................................................ 72 Page | 3
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