Projects

Overview
Project Title	Atmospheric Characterization and Forecasting for Optical Link Operations
Approval	Approved
Document Number	141.1
Charter	5.10 Optical Communications Working Group
Document Type	Magenta
Description of Document	This Magenta Book will define a set of guidelines or best practices for determining how to use in situ atmospheric data for planning and maintaining space to ground optical links. Contents of the Magenta Book: • Brief review of Green Book • System definition of issues to described (CONOPS; Link handover criteria and decision lead time; Atmospheric forecasting technologies)
Applicable Patents	There are no patent issues for this technology that are known by the CCSDS community
Patent Comments	No patent issues knwon.
Survey of Similar Standards Documents or Projects Undertaken in Other Bodies and elsewhere in CCSDS
Resources
Book Editor	Other
Book Editor Resources	12mm by NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology / Japan)
Prototype 1	Not Required
Prototype 1 Resources
Prototype 2	Not Required
Prototype 2 Resources
Prototype 3
Prototype 3 Resources
Contribute	ESA, NASA
Monitor Only	CNES, DLR, JAXA
Resource Comments	NICT Contributor and Book Editor role.

Schedule

Legend for Schedule Milestones = Required for Orange Books = Required for Green Books = Required for Magenta Books = Required for Blue Books Note - Red Books are Draft Blue/Magenta Books Schedule Milestones	Original Completion Date (Date in M/D/YYYY format.)	Comments (Date in M/D/YYYY format.)
Project Approved	11/1/2016	Approved at Joint CMC/CESG Meeting at ASI Rome
Project Start Date	1/1/2017
Internal WG Review
First Draft Circulated to WG	7/1/2018
First Draft Comments Due	9/30/2018
Second draft circulated to WG	10/1/2019
Second Draft Comments Due	12/31/2019
Final WB Submitted to AD for Further Processing	3/31/2020	At Spring 2020 Meeting
External Milestones
Secretariat Document Processing	6/1/2020
First Agency Review	9/1/2020
RID Resolution	11/30/2020	SLS-R-2021-05-004(141.1-M.Publis) issued 18 May 2021
Secretariat Document Processing 2	1/31/2021	Not needed
Final Agency Review	6/30/2021	Not needed
RID Resolution	11/20/2021	Not needed
First Prototype Development		Not needed
Second Prototype Development		Not needed
CMC Approval	12/31/2019
Total Time to Complete (in months)	35