NASA’s Integrated LCRD Low-Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal (ILLUMA-T) is getting ready for its launch to the International Space Station. Once installed, ILLUMA-T will work with NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration and showcase the significant benefits laser communications systems can offer missions.
During this Engage Session, ILLUMA-T project leaders, system engineers, and mission integration and testing personnel will detail the challenges and solutions associated with designing and building a laser communications terminal.
Panelists & Moderator include:
- Chetan Sayal, ILLUMA-T Project Manager
- Zachary Gonnsen, ILLUMA-T Lead Systems Engineer
- Trisha Randazzo, ILLUMA-T Mission Integration and Testing Lead
- Katherine Schauer, Strategic Communications Lead for ESC
Hosted by Mariah Pulver/NASA. Produced by Dustin Barringer and Travis Wohlrab/NASA.
Streamed live on January 19, 2023 from 1pm-1:50pm ET.
Organized by the Goddard Office of Communications, the Engage series explains Goddard’s work in a fun and nontechnical setting, allowing you to share your newfound knowledge with family, friends, and colleagues.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers, and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments, and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
