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Space Data Highway

The Space Data Highway (SDH) is a service operated by Airbus that uses the European Data Relay System (EDRS) to provide…

ARTES

The European Space Agency’s Advanced Research in Telecommunication Systems (ESA’s ARTES) is a program focused on developing products and services for…

U.S. Spaceforce

The United States Space Force (USSF), formerly the Air Force Space Command (AFSC), is the branch of the United States military…

ScyLight

ScyLight is a program run by the European Space Agency (ESA) with the purpose to address innovative optical communications technologies for…

Coherent Orthogonal Optical Frequency Division Multiplexing (CO-OFDM)

Coherent Orthogonal Optical Frequency Division Multiplexing (CO-OFDM) a type of WDM technology that uses the mathematical principle of orthogonality to send…

Satellite-to-Ground Links (SGL)

A Satellite-to-Ground Link (SGL) describes the communication between a satellite and a ground station. If the ground station is transmitting the…

Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)

Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) is a digital modulation technique used to convert analog information into a binary sequence. Each digit in…

GLONASS

Originally designed by the Soviet Union for military communication purposes in the 1970’s, GLONASS is a satellite constellation that has been…

Field Of View (FOV)

The Field Of View (FOV) is the actual observable area of an optical system like the human eye or a camera.…

Conformal VLC Receivers with Photodetector Arrays

At the University of Central Florida (UCF), Pooya Nabavi and Murat Yuksei have designed and prototyped a wide field-of-view (FOV) optical…

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