Kategori: Space

DARPA Moves Forward With Project To Revolutionize Satellite Communication

• technewsworld.com

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), best known for creating the internet, advanced its plan to revolutionize communication among low orbiting satellite networks by selecting 11 teams to work on its Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node program. Known as Space-BACN, the project seeks to create a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal that adapts to…
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Amazon’s Competitor to Musk’s Starlink Takes Critical Step Toward Deployment

• technewsworld.com

Amazon’s Kuiper low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network passed a significant milestone when its two orbiting satellites were able to communicate with each other at high data transfer speeds using Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) technology, the company revealed last week. OISL is a key component of Kuiper’s mesh architecture, which uses infrared lasers to send…
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