HIGH BIT RATE EXPERIMENTS OVER ACTS

This paper describes two high data rate experiments that are being developed for the gigabit NASA Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS). The first is a telescience experiment that remotely acquires image data at the Keck telescope from the Caltech campus. The second is a distributed global climate application that is run beween two supercomputer centers interconnected by ACTS. The implementation approach for each is described along with the expected results. Also, the ACTS high data rate (HDR) ground station is also described in detail.