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How did LADEE and LDRC measure it's distance from Lunar orbit to Earth to 1 centimeter accuracy using optical communications?
The video Donald Cornwell plenary talk: NASA's Optical Communications Program: 2015 and Beyond was presented at SPIE Photonics West 2015. It's a great talk and worth the time.
LADEE had [the Laser ...
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When they shoot lasers at the Moon for ranging, what is the shape of the beam?
Laser ranging of the Moon is usually done with a Q-switched pulsed laser fed into a big (1 or 2 meter diameter) telescope as a collimator in order to get a tight beam all the way to the Moon in hopes ...
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How to get an initial setting of the range gate for a Lunar Laser Ranging using a new Retro Reflector for the first time?
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They were searching by aiming their laser at the moon and looking for
reflections. But the system is set to only detect photons in a very
narrow range of ...
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