The Management Council of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) has authorized
the publication, and requests Agency review, of the following document:
This draft Recommended Practice provides a set of recommendations to facilitate interagency collection of atmospheric data
and characterization of atmospheric parameters that affect space-to-ground free-space optical communications.
Member and Observer Agencies are requested to send their sets of review comments to the Review Coordinator
with a copy to the CCSDS Secretariat. Each review comment should be submitted on a separate Review Item Disposition (RID) form. Submission of RIDs
in electronic form is preferred. The following ASCII RID forms are available (click on form name to access): Contact the Secretariat office at
secretariat@mailman.ccsds.org if you have questions.
International review start date: 8/21/2020
International review completion date: 10/20/2020
Overall review coordinator:
Name: Bernard Edwards
E-mail:
bernard.l.edwards@nasa.gov