SmartSAT Cooperative Research Center
SmartSat CRC is a consortium of universities and other research organizations, partnered with industry that has been funded by the Australian…
Optical Limitations
Absorption Absorption is caused by molecules suspended in the terrestrial atmosphere interacting with an incident photon and absorbing some or all…
Interception Resistance
Overview FSO communications have built-in interception resistance due to the way information is sent. Consider first how a radio-frequency signal is…
Airbus
Overview Airbus is a multinational European aerospace corporation founded in 1970 and headquartered in France. The company is the primary airline…
Advanced Research in Telecommunication Systems (ARTES)
Overview The European Space Agency’s Advanced Research in Telecommunication Systems (ESA’s ARTES) is a program focused on developing products and services…
5D Ultrafast Imaging
Overview Ultrafast multidimensional optical imaging has important applications in the detection of the rapidly occurring phenomena found in biology, chemistry, and…
Coherent Orthogonal Optical Frequency Division Multiplexing (CO-OFDM)
Overview Coherent Orthogonal Optical Frequency Division Multiplexing (CO-OFDM) is a type of WDM technology that uses the mathematical principle of orthogonality to send…
Geostationary Orbit (GEO)
Overview Geostationary orbit, also known as geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO), is the region of space surrounding earth above 35,786 km. Satellites…
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Overview The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a MEO satellite constellation approximately 20,000 km above the surface of the Earth. The US government originally developed GPS…
BlackJack LEO Constellation
Overview Blackjack is a DARPA program that will replace the old National Security Space (NSS) satellite infrastructure in GEO with a mesh grid…