Overview The Koganei optical ground station (OGS) in Koganei, Japan, is a NICT-operated optical ground station that was constructed to be the primary base for the SOTA experiment.   The main ...

Overview The GS-200 (aka ARMADILLO) is an optical ground station (OGS) made by Mynaric for data communication in uplink and downlink. The station is designed to host a 10 Gbps link for any aircraft or ...

Overview Blackjack is a DARPA program that will replace the old National Security Space (NSS) satellite infrastructure in GEO with a mesh grid operating in LEO made entirely out of commercial, easily ...

Overview Engineering Test Satellite (ETS) is a program name given to certain satellites launched by JAXA (formerly NASDA). The ETS name is followed by the appropriate Roman numeral to indicate the ...

Overview The European Space Agency (ESA), established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, is a multinational European agency dedicated to exploring space. The ESA consists of 22 member states and has ...

Overview The European Data Relay System (EDRS) is a developing constellation of European relay satellites situated in GEO. EDRS is designed to facilitate communications for spacecraft, LEO satellites, ...

Overview Dynamic routing, also called adaptive routing, is a process for optimizing how data is transmitted. It is comparable to taking the back roads through a city rather than the main road during ...

Overview DSOC, short for Deep Space Optical Communications, is a NASA laser-based space communications program currently in space, consisting of a FSO transceiver aboard the Psyche program spacecraft. ...

Overview The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is the German national research center. DLR focuses primarily on aerospace, energy and transportation projects. Most significantly, DLR acts as the German ...

Overview The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. ...