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I think you're too late. Pretty sure the military has line-of-sight free-space-optics to satellites since at least the second Iraq war. One can only wonder how
by spwa4 2y ago
I think you're too late. Pretty sure the military has line-of-sight free-space-optics to satellites since at least the second Iraq war.
One can only wonder how small the "receivers" (routers, really) have gotten by now.
- rhubarbtree 2y agoCubesats carry laser comms if that's what you mean.
- echoangle 2y agoThose work in vacuum though so you need a bit less laser power. The atmosphere attenuates your signal if you’re doing ground to ground or ground to aircraft links so you probably need a bit more laser power. But I agree that that’s probably not the difficult thing about the whole system.