Laser Communication Relay Demonstration
LCRD Resource Page:
Since its inception in 1958, NASA has relied exclusively on radio frequency (RF)-based communications as the only viable medium for exchanging data between a mission and a spacecraft. Today, with missions demanding communication with higher data rates than ever before, NASA is taking steps to embark on a new era of communication technology. The Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) project will help pave the way, pioneering technologies that will enable the exchange of data through beams of light.
JPL OCTL Facility Footage
The Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) is involved in the development of operational strategies for ground-to-space laser beam propagation for NASA optical communication missions.
LCRD Animation Collection
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
- Chris Meaney (HTSI)
- Tyler Chase (UMBC)
- Robert Lafon (NASA/GSFC)
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Video editor
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
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Narrator
- Michael Starobin (HTSI)
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Producer
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
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Videographers
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Stephen Epstein (NASA/JPL CalTech)
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Writers
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
- Michael Starobin (HTSI)
- Amber C Jacobson (ASRC Federal Research and Technology Solutions)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, October 31, 2013.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM EDT.
Series
This page can be found in the following series:Tapes
The media on this page originally appeared on the following tapes:-
LCRD: From Vision to Reality
(ID: 2013065)
Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 5:00AM
Produced by - Jesse Allen (Raytheon)