Portable optical ground stations for satellite communication

KM Riesing - 2018 - dspace.mit.edu
Small satellite technical capabilities continue to grow and launch opportunities are rapidly
expanding. Several commercial constellations of small satellites for Earth observation and …

A portable optical ground station for low-earth orbit satellite communications

K Riesing, H Yoon, K Cahoy - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small satellite launch opportunities are rapidly expanding and technical capabilities are
improving. Several commercial constellations of small satellites for Earth observation and …

Development of a pointing, acquisition, and tracking system for a nanosatellite laser communications module

KM Riesing - 2015 - dspace.mit.edu
Launch opportunities for small satellites are rapidly growing and their technical capabilities
are improving. Several commercial constellations of small satellites for Earth imaging and …

Laser Communication with Constellation Satellites, UAVs, HAPs and Balloons

AK Majumdar - Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2022 - Springer
Optical wireless communication (OWC) is an emerging area where continuous interests and
active research are growing worldwide. The reasons for this are the tremendous future …

Operations and Results from the 200 Gbps TBIRD Laser Communication Mission

K Riesing, C Schieler, B Bilyeu, J Chang… - 37th Annual Small …, 2023 - ntrs.nasa.gov
Since launch in May 2022, the TeraByte Infrared Delivery (TBIRD) mission has successfully
demonstrated 200 Gbps laser communications from a 6U CubeSat and has transferred up to …

Optical communications for small satellites

RW Kingsbury - 2015 - dspace.mit.edu
Small satellites, particularly CubeSats, have become popular platforms for a wide variety of
scientific, commercial and military remote sensing applications. Inexpensive commercial o …

[HTML][HTML] Lasers for satellite uplinks and downlinks

M Dmytryszyn, M Crook, T Sands - Sci, 2021 - mdpi.com
The use of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (ie, LASERs or lasers) by
the US Department of Defense is not new and includes laser weapons guidance, laser …

Integration and testing of the nanosatellite optical downlink experiment

E Clements, K Cahoy, C Haughwout, H Yoon… - 2017 - digitalcommons.usu.edu
CubeSat sensor performance continues to improve despite the limited size, weight, and
power (SWaP) available on the platform. Missions are evolving into sensor constellations …

Optical satellite communications

H Hemmati, D Caplan - Optical Fiber Telecommunications, 2013 - books.google.com
Satellite-based communication systems of today are increasingly capacity limited. Based on
radio frequency or microwave (generically RF) technologies, current stateof-the-art satellite …

Recent trends in space laser communications for small satellites and constellations

M Toyoshima - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Free-space optical communications in space can realize broadband and large-capacity
communications using smaller and lower-power-consumption onboard equipment …