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2 March 2020 Status of Tesat laser communication activities
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Proceedings Volume 11272, Free-Space Laser Communications XXXII; 1127204 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2545095
Event: SPIE LASE, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
With the EDRS program, the European Data Relay System, a private public partnership program between the European Space Agency ESA and Airbus Defence and Space ADS, laser communication has entered the commercial service since November 2016 [1]. Currently four Earth Observation satellites named Sentinels equipped with TESAT Laser Communication Terminals from the Copernicus program of the European Union are served by 40 data relay links per day, already accumulating to more than 31000 links in total. We report on the performance of the systems in space and detail on other activities of Tesat.
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Frank Heine, Alicia Sánchez-Tercero, Patricia Martin-Pimentel, Nils Höpcke, David Hasler, Thomas Marynowski, Herwig Zech, Lucas Alber, and Jan Klement "Status of Tesat laser communication activities", Proc. SPIE 11272, Free-Space Laser Communications XXXII, 1127204 (2 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2545095
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KEYWORDS
Laser communications

Space operations

Additive manufacturing

Relays

Aluminum

Calibration

Data archive systems

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