Project Icarus: Communications Data Link Designs Between Icarus and Earth and Between Icarus Spacecraft
Abstract
An outline design is reported for the interstellar communications links between Icarus and Earth, and for the links between the Icarus spacecraft and its probes. Feasibility is demonstrated using current technologies, apart from the need for large scale structures to be assembled. This paper is a submission of the Project Icarus Study Group.
- Publication:
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Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
- Pub Date:
- 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016JBIS...69..278M
- Keywords:
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- Project Icarus;
- Project Daedalus;
- Alpha Centauri;
- Proxima Centauri;
- interstellar exploration;
- interstellar communications