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  2. ICESat-2 - Wikipedia

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    ATLAS instrument assembly at NASA GSFC. The sole instrument on ICESat-2 is the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS), a space-based lidar.It was designed and built at Goddard Space Flight Center, with the laser generation and detection systems provided by Fibertek.

  3. Mars Observer - Wikipedia

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    The program's total cost is estimated at $813 million. [7] ... The propulsion system was a high thrust, ... A laser altimeter used to define the topography of Mars.

  4. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter - Wikipedia

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    In January 2013, NASA tested one-way laser communication with LRO by sending an image of the Mona Lisa to the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on LRO from the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging (NGSLR) station at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. [50]

  5. Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter - Wikipedia

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    A laser altimeter is an instrument that measures the distance from an orbiting spacecraft to the surface of the planet or asteroid that the spacecraft is orbiting. The distance is determined by measuring the complete round trip time of a laser pulse from the instrument to the body's surface, and back to the instrument.

  6. Hitchhiker Program - Wikipedia

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    The program was designed to allow low-cost and quick ... The Hitchhiker system provided real-time ... Shuttle Laser Altimeter-01 (SLA-01), NASA/GSFC ...

  7. ICESat - Wikipedia

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    The sole instrument on ICESat was the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS), a space-based lidar. GLAS combined a precision surface lidar with a sensitive dual-wavelength cloud and aerosol lidar. The GLAS lasers emit infrared and visible laser pulses at 1064- and 532-nm wavelengths.

  8. Laser communication in space - Wikipedia

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    In September 2013, a laser communication system was one of four science instruments launched with the NASA LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) mission. After a month-long transit to the Moon and a 40-day spacecraft checkout, daytime laser communications experiments were performed over three months during late 2013 and early ...

  9. Jason-1 - Wikipedia

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    Laser retroreflector array works with ground stations to track the satellite and calibrate and verify altimeter measurements. The Jason-1 satellite, its altimeter instrument and a position-tracking antenna were built in France. The radiometer, Global Positioning System receiver and laser retroreflector array were built in the United States.