Whitepaper #085 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: technology development
by Jon Hamkins, Dimitrios Antsos, James Border, Gregory Davis, Leslie Deutsch, Joseph Lazio, and Jose Velazco
Published onMar 18, 2021
Communications and Navigation Technologies
The science goals of planetary missions will benefit from improved communications and navigation capabilities. Increasing data rate capability by a factor of ten in the next decade is within reach, with investments in transponders, optical communications, channel coding, compression, autonomy, amplifiers, deployable antennas, and networking.
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