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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1991),
  • paper CFI2

Design of the Mars observer laser altimeter laser transmitter

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Abstract

A laser transmitter was selected as the operational altimeter for NASA's Mars Observer Mission. The Mars Observer Mission is scheduled for launch in 1992, arriving at Mars in March 1993, and beginning its mapping mission in August 1993.

© 1991 Optical Society of America

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