Communications system evolutionary scenarios for Martian SEI support

Details Communications system evolutionary scenarios for Martian SEI support Communications system evolutionary scenarios for Martian SEI support

Feb 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992stan.reptt....k&link_type=abstract

Final Report Stanford Telecommunications, Inc., Reston, VA.

Computer Science

Space Communication, Space Exploration, Technology Assessment, Compatibility, Millimeter Waves, Radio Frequencies, Rates (Per Time)

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In the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) mission scenarios, expanding human presence is the primary driver for high data rate Mars-Earth communications. To support an expanding human presence, the data rate requirement will be gradual, following the phased implementation over time of the evolving SEI mission. Similarly, the growth and evolution of the space communications infrastructure to serve this requirement will also be gradual to efficiently exploit the useful life of the installed communications infrastructure and to ensure backward compatibility with long-term users. In work conducted over the past year, a number of alternatives for supporting high data rate Mars-Earth communications have been analyzed with respect to their compatibility with gradual evolution of the space communications infrastructure. The alternatives include RF, millimeter wave (MMW), and optical implementations, and incorporate both surface and space-based relay terminals in the Mars and Earth regions. Each alternative is evaluated with respect to its ability to efficiently meet a projected growth in data rate over time, its technology readiness, and its capability to satisfy the key conditions and constraints imposed by evolutionary transition. As a result of this analysis, a set of attractive alternative communications architectures have been identified and described, and a road map is developed that illustrates the most rational and beneficial evolutionary paths for the communications infrastructure.

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