Cognitive Communications
Providing autonomous communication system operations, enhanced interoperability, and optimized performance to missions exploring the solar system.
Advanced Communications Systems
Advanced Communications Systems consists of the following technology projects focused on developing these technologies to enable future NASA missions.
Integrated Radio Optical Communication (iROC)
High-speed beaconless optical communications and proven radio-frequency technology
Technology Studies
NASA’s communication and navigation capability is based on the premise that communications shall enable and not constrain missions. Advancement in communication and navigation technology will allow future missions to implement new and more capable science instruments, greatly enhance human missions beyond Earth orbit, and enable entirely new mission concepts. Today our communication and navigation capabilities, … Read the rest ⇢
Real Time Optical Receiver (RealTOR) Project
A high-speed, low-cost solution for developing optical communications photon counting ground receivers.
SCaN Test Bed
Launched on July 20, 2012, on a Japanese H-IIB Transfer Vehicle, the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Testbed was installed on the International Space Station to provide an on-orbit, adaptable software-defined radio (SDR) facility with corresponding ground and operational systems. The SCaN Testbed (STB) led groundbreaking efforts to champion use of software defined radios for … Read the rest ⇢