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<div>Dear OCM,</div>
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<div>Here is an agenda update.</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;">CCSDS Spring-2012</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b>SLS-OCM SIG</b></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Darmstadt, Germany</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><u>Agenda</u></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Location:</u> Darmstadtium Conference Centre</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>Date</u>: 2012, April 16-17<font size="1"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><sup>th</sup></span></font> (Monday-Tuesday)</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><u>CCSDS Meeting</u></b><b> (</b><b>April 16</b><font size="1"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><b><sup>th</sup></b></span></font><b>, </b><b>Monday</b><b>)</b></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">10:00 – 12:30</span></font></div>
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<li>Approval of agenda</li><li>Review of previous action items</li><li>Review of OLSG (Optical Link Study Group) intermediate report for IOAG</li></span></font>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">12:30 – 14:00</span></font></div>
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<div style="padding-right:27pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">14:00 – 17:30</span></font></div>
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<li>Review of concept book updates (white paper)</li></span></font>
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<li>Some words from G.-P- Calzolari [to be confirmed]. How would optics fit in CCSDS Stack? Which Cross Support Services should be picked up by the IOAG Catalog?</li></span></font>
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<li>Discussion on link budget conventions</li></span></font>
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<li>When can we assume an AWGN channel?</li><li>How to define Scintillation loss and Coding gain?</li></span></font>
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<li>AOB, next steps</li><li>Review of minutes</li></span></font>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><u>Workshop</u></b><b> </b><b>(</b><b>April 1</b><b>7</b><font size="1"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><b><sup>th</sup></b></span></font><b>, Tues</b><b>day</b><b>)</b></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">8:45 – 12:30</span></font></div>
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<li>Status update on upcoming missions: </li></span></font>
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<li>OSIRIS (DLR-IKN, C. Fuchs)</li><li>EDRS terminals (TESAT Spacecom, R. Lange)</li><li>Laser Lunar Communications Demonstration (MIT-LL, A. Fletcher)</li><li>Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (NASA-GSFC, B. L. Edwards)</li><li>Status of JPL lasercom work (NASA-JPL, H. Hemmati)</li><li>Terminal developments at RUAG [to be confirmed]</li></span></font>
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<div style="padding-right:27pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">14:00 – 17:30 (time tbc)</span></font></div>
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<li>Open to suggestions </li></span></font>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>Nicolas Perlot</div>
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<div>Nicolas Perlot, Ph.D.</div>
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<div>German Aerospace Center (DLR) phone: ++49/8153/281836</div>
<div>Institute of Communications and Navigation fax: ++49/8153/282844</div>
<div>Oberpfaffenhofen, P.O. Box 11 16 email: nicolas.perlot@dlr.de</div>
<div>82234 Wessling, Germany <a href="http://www.dlr.de/KN/KN-DN/">
http://www.dlr.de/KN/KN-DN/</a> </div>
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