SRC-371

Laser Beaming Demonstrations to High-Orbit Satellites

Ronald J. Lipinski and others, Sandia National Laboratories, with USAF Phillips Laboratory Starfire Optical Range, COMSAT Laboratories, Rockwell Power Systems, Mission Research Corporation and Ball Systems Engineering ·1993 · T3 government or agency report · VC05 VC06

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CLM-1239 In 1993 US government laboratories and a satellite company planned to shine a powerful red laser from a New Mexico telescope at mirrors left on the Moon and then at a communications satellite, to see whether the satellite's solar panels would register it. The paper shows that without correcting for air turbulence almost all of the beam would miss a satellite that far away.

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