Overview Telesat is working with leading manufacturers and developers so its customers will have a variety of terminals to make full use of Telesat LEO at the right performance and price po ...

Overview The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, or LCRD, is a project managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to perform communications tests from GEO using FSO technology. LCRD uses ...

Overview L3 Communication Systems-West (CSW) is a division of L3Harris, Inc., that specializes in secure communications, complex communication integration, RF and antenna solutions, and wideband ...

Overview The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a national research facility managed by Caltech in partnership with NASA specializing in space mission research and development. JPL receives federal ...

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 The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aerospace and space agency. It was formed on October 1st, 2003, as a merger of the Institute of Space and Astronautical ...

Overview Adjacent Satellite Interference (ASI) is a phenomenon that occurs when two or more satellite signals are received by a ground terminal (downlink ASI or dASI) or when two or more ground ...

Overview Sometimes unreliable networks can damage or lose optical packets. Retransmission is a procedure to repair damaged packets by resending them over the network and using checksums to ensure the ...

Overview Free-space optical (FSO) communication systems are a non-fiber-optic based optical communication systems that aim to handle large amounts of data at a high bandwidth. The simplest example of ...

Overview Adaptive optics (AO) are optical devices or technologies used to correct wavefront distortions on a fast timescale (100 – 1kHz). Adaptive optics are different from active optics, which work o ...