In Silico Methods for Space System Analysis: Optical Link Coding Performance and Lunar Terrain Masks

C. Lee thanks Mohsin Shaikh of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology for assistance with setup and troubleshooting applications on Shaheen and Harvey Newman of California Institute of Technology for insightful discussions about super computing applications. The research described in this paper was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This research used the resources of the Supercomputing Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.