Overview Northern Sky Research (NSR) is a research and consulting firm for satellite and space communication. They were founded in 2000 and since have become a a global leader in Satellite & Space ...

Overview The National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) is the French government space agency similar to NASA, JAXA, and DLR. It is headquartered in Paris and is supervised by the French Ministries of ...

Overview The Japanese Data Relay System is a data relay satellite that is scheduled for launch at the end of 2019 on the HICALI satellite. It was developed in 2015 and went through several years of ...

Overview Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) is an international project which aims to establish a quantum-encrypted European-Asian network by 2020, and a global network by 2030. These ...

Overview The "signal footprint" of a transmission refers to how much a signal diverges from transmitter to receiver. For example, when an RF signal is sent from a satellite to the ground, the signal ...

Overview Laser Light Communications, LLC, (collectively, Laser Light) is a communications company based in Reston, Virginia, United States, that utilizes optical technology to meet satellite ...

Overview Side lobes are additional local maxima patterns found in antenna sources which are separate from the main maxima or signal. Side lobes radiate at off-angles from the main transmitter, as ...

Overview The Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) was a technology demonstration by NASA which ran from October 2013 to April 2014. Its purpose was to test an optical satellite ...

Overview LGS Innovations is a technology company formed from the merger of Lucent Technologies (the parent company of Bell Laboratories) and Alcatel, a major French company. Its original purpose was ...

Overview LEO satellites are not always visible to a ground station. Due to high orbital speed and near proximity to Earth (around 1,200 miles above the surface), a typical LEO satellite may be visible ...