Since launch in May 2022, NASA’s TeraByte Infrared Delivery (TBIRD) program has successfully demonstrated 100-Gbps and 200-Gbps laser communication downlinks from a 6U CubeSat in low-Earth orbit to a ground station. The TBIRD system operates during 5-minute passes over the ground station and has demonstrated an error-free downlink transfer of > 1 Terabyte (TB) in a single pass. This paper presents an overview of the architecture, link operations, and system performance results to date.


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    Titel :

    On-Orbit Demonstration of 200-Gbps Laser Communication Downlink from the Tbird Cubesat


    Beteiligte:
    Curt M. Schieler (Autor:in) / Kathleen M. Riesing (Autor:in) / Bryan C. Bilyeu (Autor:in) / Jesse S. Chang (Autor:in) / Ajay S. Garg (Autor:in) / Noah J. Gilbert (Autor:in) / Andrew J. Horvath (Autor:in) / Robert S Reeve (Autor:in) / Bryan S. Robinson (Autor:in) / Jade P. Wang (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    SPIE Photonics West ; 2023 ; San Francisco, CA, US


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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