[Sls-ocm] OLSG Report Addendum Recommendations for CCSDS at the IOAG Meeting

[Edwards, Bernard L. (GSFC-5600)]

Hi!

This is Bernie Edwards from NASA again.  I just wanted to let you know that the Optical Link Study Group (OLSG) Recommendations were presented at last week's Interagency Operations Advisory Group (IOAG) meeting at Kennedy Space Center.

IOAG is recommending that CCSDS not do anything with optical communications at the April CCSDS meeting.  Instead OLSG will do some additional work, but minimal, between now and IOP-3 in the summer of 2013.  The IOAG requested an updated roadmap,  an estimate of the effort needed (financial resources) for CCSDS standardization that is required, and for the OLSG to produce a reduced set of core optical communication standards recommendations.  At the IOAG, a reduced core set was discussed to be something along the lines of:

            Downlink Modulation (PPM, BPSK, DPSK)
            Meteorological Measurements
            Protocols

However, the IOAG really asked the OLSG to go back and look at it and come back with a recommendation.  Basically, in my opinion, the IOAG thought that the OLSG recommend too many "high priority" standardization areas and the IOAG wanted to see which of those were more important than others.

So there will not be an Optical Comm BOF or SIG within CCSDS until sometime after IOP-3, which takes place this summer.  However, some have suggested holding some type of unofficial workshop just to keep dialogs going.  Stay tuned!

Thanks,
Bernie Edwards

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Bernard L. Edwards
Chief Communications Systems Engineer
Electrical Engineering Division (Code 560)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
(301) 286-8926
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