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Proceedings Article | 11 June 2021 Open Access

CubeSat laser infrared crosslinK mission status

Hannah Tomio, William Kammerer, Peter Grenfell, John Hanson, Simon Barke, Myles Clark, Danielle Coogan, Kerri Cahoy, Paul Serra, Ondrej Cierny, Grant Gunnison, Joseph Kusters, Cadence Payne, Paula do Vale Pereira, David Mayer, Jan Stupl, Tyler Ritz, John Conklin

Proceedings Volume 11852, 118523D (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2599543

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Constellations of CubeSats will benefit from high data rate communications links and precision time transfer and ranging. The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK (CLICK) mission intends to demonstrate low size, weight, and power (SWaP) laser communication terminals, capable of conducting full-duplex high data rate downlinks and crosslinks, as well as high precision ranging and time transfer. A joint project between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Florida (UF), and NASA Ames Research Center, CLICK consists of two separate demonstration flights: the initial CLICK-A, which will demonstrate a space-to-ground downlink and serve as a risk-reduction mission, and CLICK-B/C, a crosslink demonstration mission. The CLICK payloads each consist of laser transceivers and pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) systems, and will fly on 3U CubeSat buses from Blue Canyon Technologies to perform their optical downlink and crosslink experiments in low Earth orbit (LEO). We present an update on the status of both the CLICK-A and CLICK-B/C payloads. At the time of writing, the final assembly and testing of the CLICK-A payload has been completed and the payload has been delivered for integration with the spacecraft bus. The final testing included the validation of the transmitter and the PAT system, the performance of both of which was characterized under various environmental test conditions and shown to meet their requirements for operation on orbit. On CLICK-B/C, the payload electronics have been designed and are under test. The optical bench of the payload has been assembled, the characterization of which is ongoing.

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