Due to the high directionality and short wavelength of laser transmission in space, satellite
laser communication can achieve high speed, wide bandwidth, high precision, and high …

Recently, the availability of innovative and affordable COTS (Commercial Off‐The‐Shelf)
technological solutions and the ever‐improving results of microelectronics and …

Free-space optical (FSO) communication technologies constitute a solution to cope with the
bandwidth demand of future satellite-ground networks. They may overcome the RF …

Free-space optical communications in space can realize broadband and large-capacity
communications using smaller and lower-power-consumption onboard equipment …

Direct‐to‐Earth transmissions with optical on/off‐keying are becoming the method of choice
to realize telemetry downlinks from low Earth orbit satellites at highest data‐rates. Here, we …

Downlink measurement campaigns from the optical downlink terminal OSIRISv1 onboard
the LEO satellite Flying Laptop were carried out with the French Observatoire de la Côte …

In this article, architectures for interplanetary communications that feature the use of a data
relay are investigated. In the considered “two-leg” architecture, a spacecraft orbiting the …

Optical satellite links have gained increasing attention throughout the last years. Especially
for the application of optical satellite downlinks, DLR's Institute of Communications and …

Advanced space missions, eg, interplanetary exploration and Earth observation embrace
constellation or swarm-like CubeSat configuration to achieve unprecedented spatial and …

A wide-field zenith-looking telescope operating in a mode similar to time-delay-integration
(TDI) or drift scan imaging can perform an infrared sky survey without active pointing control …