David Israel

"LunaNet"

ABSTRACT -- LunaNet is a flexible and extensible communications and navigation architecture for the Moon and will play a key role in NASA's ambitious exploration initiatives under the Artemis program. Our talk will give an overview of LunaNet, discuss possible implementation approaches, and showcase how LunaNet is the foundation of a solar system internet. LunaNet users will have access to networked communications, position, navigation, and timing (PNT), detection and information, and science services, which will be critical to carrying out a variety of mission objectives. With the LunaNet architecture in place, astronauts, rovers, orbiters, and other space-based assets will have unprecedented connectivity from the Moon back to mission control on Earth.

SPEAKER -- David J. Israel is the Exploration and Space Communications Projects Division Architect and the Principal Investigator for the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) at Goddard Space Flight Center. He is the co-chair of the Interagency Operations Advisory Group (IOAG) Space Internetworking Strategy Group. He has been working on various aspects of space communications systems since joining NASA in 1989. He received a B.S.E.E from the Johns Hopkins University in 1989 and M.S.E.E. from the George Washington University in 1996. He has led the development of various Space Network/Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) operational systems and has been the principal investigator for multiple communications technology activities concerning advanced space communications concepts and networking protocols, including the LPT CANDOS experiment on STS-107 and Disruption Tolerant Network demonstrations on the Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration.

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