A prototype coarse pointing mechanism for laser communication

Miller, Eric D.; DeSpenza, Michael; Gavrilyuk, I. I.; Nelson, G. P.; Erickson, Brent; Edwards, Britney; Davis, E. G.; Truscott, Tony

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“…Most systems use a mechanical fine pointing system to allow the transmitter to precisely steer the beam to the receiver [6]. Coarse-pointing will traditionally have a much higher field of regard that the fine-pointing system [7]. The use of optical communication in CubeSats has been demonstrated [8], but those systems lacked the fine-pointing capability needed for higher data rates.…”

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Miniature Optical Steerable Antenna for Intersatellite Communications Liquid Lens Characterization

Fogle

Čierny

Pereira

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference

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Miniature Optical Steerable Antenna for Intersatellite Communications Liquid Lens Characterization

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Čierny

Pereira

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference

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“…Lasercom demonstrations have been carried out in a wide variety of scenarios, e.g. deep space-to-ground [2], ground-to-deep space [3], LEO-to-ground [4] [5], LEO-to-LEO [6], GEO-to-ground [7] [8], GEO-to-LEO [9] [10], GEO-to-aircraft [11], aircraft-to-ground [12] [13], aircraft-to-aircraft [14] and balloon-to-balloon [15], and a number of projects are projected for future demonstrations [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21].…”

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LEO-to-ground optical communications using SOTA (Small Optical TrAnsponder) – Payload verification results and experiments on space quantum communications

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Free-space optical communications have held the promise of revolutionizing space communications for a long time. The benefits of increasing the bitrate while reducing the volume, mass and energy of the space terminals have attracted the attention of many researchers for a long time. In the last few years, more and more technology demonstrations have been taking place with participants from both the public and the private sector. The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan has a long experience in this field. SOTA (Small Optical TrAnsponder) was the last NICT space lasercom mission, designed to demonstrate the potential of this technology applied to microsatellites. Since the beginning of SOTA mission in 2014, NICT regularly established communication using the Optical Ground Stations (OGS) located in the Headquarters at Koganei (Tokyo) to receive the SOTA signals, with over one hundred successful links. All the goals of the SOTA mission were fulfilled, including up to 10-Mbit/s downlinks using two different wavelengths and apertures, coarse and fine tracking of the OGS beacon, space-to-ground transmission of the on-board-camera images, experiments with different error correcting codes, interoperability with other international OGS, and experiments on quantum communications. The SOTA mission ended on November 2016, more than doubling the designed lifetime of 1-year. In this paper, the SOTA characteristics and basic operation are explained, along with the most relevant technological demonstrations.

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Prototype of a Computer Vision-Based CubeSat Detection System for Laser Communications

Medina

Hernández-Gómez

Miguel

et al. 2020

Int. J. Aeronaut. Space Sci.

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A prototype coarse pointing mechanism for laser communication

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Miniature Optical Steerable Antenna for Intersatellite Communications Liquid Lens Characterization

Miniature Optical Steerable Antenna for Intersatellite Communications Liquid Lens Characterization

LEO-to-ground optical communications using SOTA (Small Optical TrAnsponder) – Payload verification results and experiments on space quantum communications

Prototype of a Computer Vision-Based CubeSat Detection System for Laser Communications

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