Optical Ground Station for Free-Space Optical Communication Research and Experimentation

RT Schwarz, MT Knopp, H Le Son… - … Networks; 24th ITG …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… atmosphere on laser communication between the space-to-ground and ground-to-space
paths. … Aerospace Center in Trauen, Germany [8], and comprises the telescope including the …

[PDF][PDF] Laser Communication in Space: The TDP-1Mission Control Center and its current operational experience

G Rossmanith, S Kuhlmann, B Grishechkin… - SpaceOps Conference …, 2016 - core.ac.uk
… ,7 about GSOC ground system designs of laser communication missions with and without …
the data to the Alphasat via laser communication. o A ground station for the reception of the …

Aerospace laser communications technology as enabler for worldwide quantum key distribution

F Moll, H Weinfurter, M Rau, C Schmidt… - Quantum …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
communications over large distances as well as between an aircraft and a ground station
done and corresponding ongoing research work of German Aerospace Center (DLR) and …

DLR's free space experimental laser terminal for optical aircraft downlinks

C Fuchs, C Schmidt, B Rödiger… - … Communication …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Communications and Navigation developed the Free
Space Experimental Laser … to transmit data from the aircraft to a ground station with a very …

Connectivity services based on optical ground-to-space links

MT Knopp, D Giggenbach, RM Calvo, C Fuchs… - Acta Astronautica, 2018 - Elsevier
… drivers of optical ground stations for land-based applications. … regarding laser communications
in space [6]. Catering to low … to ensure aviation safety when shining high power laser light …

Optical satellite links at DLR

C Fuchs, F Moll, J Poliak, A Reeves… - … Communications …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace … a DLR research aircraft (Do228)
and the Optical Ground Station … work which focuses on satellite QKD systems, especially in …

Demonstration of an FSO/RF hybrid-communication system on aeronautical and space applications

B Rödiger, D Ginthör, JP Labrador… - … Communication …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Aerospace Center’s Institute of Communications and Navigation (IKN), is combined with a
… via laser. This guarantees that the transmission laser is received by the ground station with a …

[PDF][PDF] Compact Ground Station for Satellite Laser Ranging and Identification

F Niebler, P Wagner, D Hampf, N Bartels, T Meyer… - 2022 - elib.dlr.de
Earth observation satellites are emerging [1,5]. In this paper, an updated version of the small
SLR ground station “… level of laser safety has to be maintained, not only for aircraft protection …

Update on the German and Australasian Optical Ground Station Networks

NJ Rattenbury, J Ashby, F Bennet, M Birch… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
… The German Aerospace Centre (DLR), is leading research … of the first coherent satellite Laser
Communications Terminal (… Additional experiments were performed (such as aeronautical

Downlink communication experiments with OSIRISv1 laser terminal onboard Flying Laptop satellite

D Giggenbach, C Fuchs, C Schmidt, B Rödiger… - Applied …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
… the NFIRE satellite and an Optical Ground Station (OGS) at … laser communication terminals
in small satellites at low Earth … miss-tracking errors with aeronautical targets, which was not …