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Lasercom is free space optical communications. Think NASA, ESA, SpaceX StarLink. Lasercom is a revolutionary technology delivering faster, cheaper, more secure data at light speed. Applications include quantum comms, telecom, banking, maritime, agriculture, urban monitoring, emergency services, military and government intelligence, global navigation, and space exploration. It enables amazing high-def space photos, and will become a backbone of the interplanetary internet.
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Space Lasers. Lasercom is free-space optical communications on the ground, in the air, or in space. This is currently a huge growth market. Think NASA, ESA, Amazon Project Kuiper, SpaceX StarLink... Information is being sent via laser communication at the speed of light and across 1,000's of kilometers of space. Lasercom is a revolutionary technology you've probably never heard of, delivering faster, cheaper, and more secure internet to anywhere on Earth. It's applications include telecoms, banking, military and government intelligence, global navigation systems and space exploration. Lasercom allows us to get amazing high definition space photos, and will also become the backbone of the interplanetary internet.
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Airborne semi-COTs optical coms system providers?
Hi folks,
I've got an application where I'm looking for generally short-distance (<10 km max, usually <2 km) air-to-air optical communications. I'm familiar with Mynaric's Hawk system but that's overkill for our needs. We would be happy with kbps class data; we just need telemetry-class info. We'd like this system to be as COTs as possible. I attended SPIE PW and DCS and found plenty of providers for small sat space-to-space links but I didn't see much in this world. If there are startups or commercial providers you know of that offer systems intended for short ranges, low cost, and low data rates I'd love to hear of them.
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