Overview Quality of Service (QoS) fairness is a technique which improves the fairness of multiple virtual path flows by classifying each path into one of 16 different classes. These 16 different ...

Overview FSO systems must efficiently process and transmit data which requires precision pointing and receiving. Movement such as vibrations, jarring or sway will adversely affect the accuracy of the ...

Overview PathFinder Digital LLC specializes in the development of RF and Free Space Optics (FSO) satellite ground terminal solutions engineered to meet the unique and particular needs of each ...

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 ...