Projects

Overview
Project Title	Optical Communications Coding & Synchronization (Issue 2)
Approval	Approved
Document Number	142.0
Charter	5.10 Optical Communications Working Group
Document Type	Blue
Description of Document	Addition of Optical On/Off Keying to the Optical Communications Physical Layer Blue Book for the Low Complexitiy Scenario.
Applicable Patents	There are no patent issues for this technology that are known by the CCSDS community
Patent Comments
Survey of Similar Standards Documents or Projects Undertaken in Other Bodies and elsewhere in CCSDS
Resources
Book Editor
Book Editor Resources	NASA 0.5 WM DLR-IKN 2 WM
Prototype 1	DLR
Prototype 1 Resources	DLR-IKN 3 WM
Prototype 2	ESA
Prototype 2 Resources	ESA 3 WM
Prototype 3
Prototype 3 Resources
Contribute	CNES, DLR, ESA, JAXA, NASA
Monitor Only
Resource Comments

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	6/1/2019	CMC-P-2019-05-004
Project Start Date	6/1/2019
Internal WG Review
First Draft Circulated to WG	11/1/2020
First Draft Comments Due	12/31/2020
Second draft circulated to WG	3/1/2021
Second Draft Comments Due	4/1/2021
Final WB Submitted to AD for Further Processing	5/31/2021
External Milestones
Secretariat Document Processing	7/1/2021
First Agency Review	9/1/2021
RID Resolution	11/30/2021
Secretariat Document Processing 2	2/1/2022
Final Agency Review	4/1/2022
RID Resolution	6/1/2022
First Prototype Development	4/1/2021
Second Prototype Development	4/1/2021
CMC Approval	12/31/2020
Total Time to Complete (in months)	19