By Chris Forrester Moderator: Noel Rimalovski, MD at GH Partners, brought together a specialised panel at the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View on February 4 to discuss optical communications. Each […]
Optical Communication Terminals (OCTs)
TESAT selected by MDA Space for optical inter-satellite links
TESAT was recently selected by MDA Space Ltd. (TSX:MDA) to deliver 792 Optical Communication Terminals (OCT) as part of the supply chain for MDA AURORATM. The 792 SCOT80 OCTs will be manufactured […]
NEC + Skyloom partner for 100 Gbps space optical comms
NEC Corporation (NEC;TSE: 6701) and Skyloom Global Corporation have joined forces to develop optical communication equipment for multi-orbit satellite networks — this collaboration aims to commercialize and make available on […]
General Atomics awarded SDA contract to demo optical comms terminals
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has been awarded a contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) to demonstrate the capabilities of the company’s Optical Communication Terminals (OCTs) hosted on GA-EMS’ […]
TESAT delivers 1st SDA TRANCHE 1 optical comms terminal to Lockheed Martin
TESAT has delivered the first SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer Optical Communication Terminals (OCTs) to Lockheed Martin. The OCTs are now in place for integration on 42 smallsats that Lockheed […]
Skyloom + Satellogic sign multipath optical comms data transmission agreement
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL) has signed an agreement with Skyloom to integrate the latter’s Optical Communications Terminal (“OCT”) onto Satellogic satellites. Using Skyloom’s OCT, Satellogic will test new methods of high-resolution EO […]
SDA selects Mynaric for an optical ground station project
Mynaric (NASDAQ: MYNA) has been selected by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to contribute to an optical ground terminal demo. This R&D program’s mission, slated for 2025, is to demo […]