Overview Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking (PAT) is a satellite protocol established to synchronize a ground station with an orbiting satellite. Because of the large distance b ...

Overview The Optical Space InfraRed DownlInk System (OSIRIS) program started with the development of optical communication payloads for the Flying Laptop and BiROS satellite, which are already in ...

Overview The Optical PAyload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) is a spacecraft communication instrument developed at JPL and tested on the ISS to demonstrate the technology for laser communications sys ...

Overview Inter-Satellite Links (ISL) allow satellites to communicate with each other in a constellation. Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISL) are ISLs that utilize optical technologies to route data ...

Overview Optical Inter-Orbit Communication Engineering Test Satellite (OICETS), also known as "Kirari", was a 2005 to 2009 JAXA test satellite. The satellite itself weighed 570 kg and circled at an a ...

Overview Optical Ground Station (OGS) is a terrestrial optical terminal that communicates via Free Space Optics (FSO) to another terminal located either on land, airborne, or in space. Optical Ground ...

Overview The Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) is a laboratory that was built to support research and development of FSO communications from space. The OCTL facility is located at the ...

Overview Previously known as LEMNOS, NASA’s Optical-to-Orion (O2O) program is expected to use lasercom for real-time 4K video transmission from the Orion spacecraft in cislunar orbit. It is expected t ...

Overview A natural security feature of Free-Space Optics (FSO) is the need for there to be an uninterrupted signal between the transmitting/receiving units for the communication to be effective. If ...

Overview The Aerospace Corporation is a California nonprofit corporation that operates a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) headquartered in El Segundo, California. The ...