… near-Earth crosslinks and for direct-to-Earth downlinks from … We describe a novel
space-to-Earth communication … telecommunications industry, we believe that space terminal …

… during a LEO pass over the optical ground station (OGS). The … a low cost receiver without
AO and small ground telescope. … telecommunications, digital, and optical communications. …

… terminal located on a geo-stationary (GEO) relay spacecraft [1]. The two key subsystems
for successful multi-Gbps data-rate freespace optical communication … on the direct-detection …

… will demonstrate a direct-to-Earth optical communication link … large volumes of data from
low-Earth orbit directly to ground. … the ground terminal as well as low-rate optical communication …

… between a low Earth orbit satellite (NFIRE) and a TESAT optical ground station hosted at …
Direct X/Ka-band downlinks from LEO to ground with for example 2 Gbps are technically still …

… baseline design for the LCRD optical payload [3]. The space … for direct transfer on the optical
communications subsystem, … -Earth deep space satellites using optical communications, …

… of future high resolution earth observation missions. … optical communication experiments
with the ground optical … of high resolution observation data when we only use direct data down …

… satellite and ground terminal nodes using optical and EHF links … Earth-sensing satellite
payloads with multispectral sensors … Optical communications payloads are likely to be smaller in …

… Optical communications from Earth orbiters have been … (DSOC), which is developing an
optical terminal and ground support … Even though it is designed to also support higher data rates, …

… Direct microwave data downlink capacity of today’s earth … DLR’s Optical Communications
Group is investigating the … An elevation angle of 2 is used as design point, guaranteeing …