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25 September 2017 Sota optical downlinks to DLR’s optical ground stations
Christian Fuchs, Dimitar Kolev, Florian Moll, Amita Shrestha, Martin Brechtelsbauer, Fabian Rein, Christopher Schmidt, Maki Akioka, Yasushi Munemasa, Hideki Takenaka, Morio Toyoshima
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Proceedings Volume 10562, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2016; 1056247 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2296107
Event: International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2016, 2016, Biarritz, France
Abstract
Optical Satellite Downlinks have gathered increasing attention in the last years. A number of experimental payloads have become available, and downlink experiments are conducted around the globe. One of these experimental systems is SOTA, the Small Optical Transponder, built by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).

This paper describes the downlink experiments carried out from SOTA to the German Aerospace Center’s Optical Ground Stations located in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Both the Transportable Optical Ground Station (TOGS) as well as the fixed Optical Ground Station Oberpfaffenhofen (OGS-OP) are used for the experiments. This paper will explain the preparatory work, the execution of the campaign, as well as show the first results of the measurements.
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Christian Fuchs, Dimitar Kolev, Florian Moll, Amita Shrestha, Martin Brechtelsbauer, Fabian Rein, Christopher Schmidt, Maki Akioka, Yasushi Munemasa, Hideki Takenaka, and Morio Toyoshima "Sota optical downlinks to DLR’s optical ground stations", Proc. SPIE 10562, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2016, 1056247 (25 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2296107
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