Projects

Overview
Project Title	Optical High Data Rate (HDR) Communication – 1550 nm
Approval	Approved
Document Number	141.10
Charter	5.10 Optical Communications Working Group
Document Type	Orange
Description of Document	This Orange Book will define an optical communications recommendation for 1550 nm systems providing data rates from Mbps to greater than 100 Gbits/second. The proposed recommendation will support space-to-space, space-to- air, and space-to-ground optical communications links.
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	NASA
Book Editor Resources	12mm
Prototype 1	TBD
Prototype 1 Resources	NA
Prototype 2	TBD
Prototype 2 Resources	NA
Prototype 3	TBD
Prototype 3 Resources	NA
Contribute	CNES, JAXA
Monitor Only
Resource Comments	NICT will also "Contribute". All Member Agencies of the Optical Communications Working Group will "Monitor".

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	4/30/2017	CMC-P-2017-03-003
Project Start Date	4/30/2017
Internal WG Review
First Draft Circulated to WG	5/1/2018
First Draft Comments Due	5/31/2018
Second draft circulated to WG	10/1/2019
Second Draft Comments Due	10/31/2019
Final WB Submitted to AD for Further Processing	5/1/2020
External Milestones
Secretariat Document Processing	5/1/2020
First Agency Review
RID Resolution
Secretariat Document Processing 2
Final Agency Review
RID Resolution
First Prototype Development
Second Prototype Development
CMC Approval	1/1/2020
Total Time to Complete (in months)	32