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Optical payloads for small satellites: a sector overview
- avmich 7y agoA very interesting role the optics can play for modern satellites, which unfortunately isn't covered in the article, is using light as communication media between satellites or between ground stations and satellites. Some NASA experiments have shown that optical communication systems can present a range of interesting features, which may be of interest even to the designers of small satellites.
- kartikkumar 7y agoHere's our round-up of optical comms systems for small satellites: https://blog.satsearch.co/2020-01-22-optical-communications-for-small-satellites-and-cubesats-product-roundup https://blog.satsearch.co/2020-01-22-optical-communications-... The optical comms market is quite dynamic at the moment, There are a number of ground stations being deployed around the world, in addition to terminals for satellites being brought to market for ground communication and inter-satellite links (ISL).