Design Blueprint: An Earth-Mars Laser Ranging Transponder Constellation for a Direct Interplanetary Test of Signal Transit Times
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24142298): This paper presents a space mission design, computed from stated assumptions and not measured, built to measure one quantity: the round-trip range anomaly predicted over the longest Earth-Mars geometry, for which the design case adopts 38 millimetres of range. Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225794283