Overview Due to various environmental parameters such as the fluctuating solar loading, the materials used to construct the telescope equipped aboard satellites must be considered and evaluated. ...

Overview As communication technology advance, maintaing and improving data transfer security has become an important field of research. New quantum technologies allow for high-speed data transfer with ...

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 The Nastional Institue of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) headquartered in Koganei, Tokyo is Japan’s primary research agency for information and communications. NICT was o ...

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 ...

Overview A satellite constellation is a network of satellites that provide global or near-global coverage. For the communications field, the satellite constellation allows satellite services to ...