GOPEX: a laser uplink to the Galileo spacecraft on its way to Jupiter

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Aug 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993spie.1866..138w&link_type=abstract

Proc. SPIE Vol. 1866, p. 138-146, Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies V, G. Stephen Mecherle; Ed.

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In the Galileo Optical Experiment (GOPEX), optical transmissions were beamed to the Galileo spacecraft by Earth-based transmitters at Table Mountain Observatory (TMO), California, and Starfire Optical Range (SOR), New Mexico. The demonstration took place over an eight-day period (December 9 through December 16) as Galileo receded from Earth on its way to Jupiter. At 6 million kilometers (15 times the Earth-Moon distance), the laser beam sent from Table Mountain Observatory eight days after Earth flyby covered the longest known range for laser transmission and detection.

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