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 …

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 …

Transformation of DLR's laser communication terminals for CubeSats towards new application scenarios

B Rödiger, LR Rodeck, MT Hahn… - Small Satellites Systems …, 2024 - elib.dlr.de
… Thus, German Aerospace Center (DLR) develops pointing … the aircraft can move freely in
respect to the ground station, … on the optical bench within the aircraft to compensate for channel …

Near-earth laser communications

H Hemmati - Near-Earth Laser Communications, Second Edition, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
… Lower cost ground stations with diameter on the order of ≈ 0.4 … at providing ground lasercom
ground station networks … and aircraft, and the Laser Clearinghouse of Space Command (…

Recent Demonstrations of Laser Satellite Communications: Path Forward for Constellation of Laser Satellite Technology for Global Communication

AK Majumdar - Laser Communication with Constellation Satellites …, 2022 - Springer
laser communications have also been addressed in the report. A novel optical ground station
to support satellite-to-ground … a pod to establish laser communication between aircraft and …

A survey on laser space network: terminals, links, and architectures

R Li, B Lin, Y Liu, M Dong, S Zhao - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of laser transmission in space, satellite laser communication … of the German Aerospace
Center. It aims to promote wireless … laser communication link with LiJiang optical ground station