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The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems packet telemetry standard defines the protocol used for the transmission of spacecraft instrument data over the deep-space channel. Under this standard, an image or other data sent from a spacecraft instrument is transmitted using one or more packets.
A packet is a block of data with length that can vary between successive packets, ranging from 7 to 65,542 bytes, including the packet header. Packetized data is transmitted via frames, which are fixed-length data blocks. The size of a frame, including frame header and control information, can range up to 2048 bytes.
The Space Communications Protocol Specifications (SCPS) are a set of extensions to existing protocols and new protocols developed by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) to improve performance of Internet protocols in space environments. The SCPS protocol stack consists of:
PPARC – (organization) Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, a major government-sponsored science agency in the United Kingdom, merged into the Science and Technology Facilities Council in 2007; PPM – (catalog) Positions and Proper Motions, a catalog of the positions and proper motions of stars
Examples of transmission are the sending of signals with limited duration, for example, a block or packet of data, a phone call, or an email. See also Radio ...
Long-range optical communication or free-space optical communication (FSO) is an optical communication technology that uses light propagating in free space to wirelessly transmit data for telecommunications or computer networking over long distances. "Free space" means air, outer space, vacuum, or something similar.
Space Science Reviews is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal of space science. It was established in 1962, by Kees de Jager and is published now by Springer Nature B.V. The journal is currently edited by Hans Bloemen. Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive synthesis of the various branches of space research.
NASA's Vision Mission for the Innovative Interstellar Explorer considered using optical-laser communication, as did the 1980s era TAU probe. It has also been proposed that higher frequency signals, such as lasers operating at visible light frequencies, may prove to be a fruitful method of interstellar communication; at a given frequency it takes surprisingly small energy output for a laser ...