{"id":49947,"date":"2024-12-18T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/airbus-and-cnes-complete-teleo-optical-link-demonstration\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:56:11","slug":"airbus-and-cnes-complete-teleo-optical-link-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/airbus-and-cnes-complete-teleo-optical-link-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus and CNES Complete TELEO Optical Link Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Airbus <\/b>and the <b>French Space Agency CNES <\/b>have completed the TELEO mission demonstrating very high throughput laser communications between Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and Earth. TELEO is an optical communications payload hosted onboard the <strong>Arabsat<\/strong> Badr-8 telecommunications satellite that launched in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>According to CNES, TELEOS demonstrated reliable links to the prototype ground station called FrOGS (French optical ground station) under a wide range of conditions and demonstrated bi-directional laser transmissions at up to 9 Gbps. There were 22 days of demonstrations between TELEO and FrOGS for more than 60 hours of active communication.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaser communications to and from space will reshape the telecoms market, similar to how optical fiber transformed telecoms on ground,\u201d commented Philippe Pham, head of Telecommunications and Navigation systems at Airbus. \u201cTELEO is the next generation of laser satellite communication, demonstrating very high speed and resilient connectivity from GEO orbit to the ground.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Complementary test campaigns were carried out with European Space Agency (ESA), ONERA and France\u2019s Defence Innovation Agency at sites across Europe. The first communication links were achieved with various data rates by an Airbus ground station team in the Netherlands, relying on an existing ESA ground facility in Tenerife, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus said the payload will likely be reactivated in the future for additional demonstration tests and to assess future optical ground stations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus and the French Space Agency CNES have completed the TELEO mission demonstrating very high throughput laser communications between Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and Earth. TELEO is an optical communications payload hosted onboard the Arabsat Badr-8 telecommunications satellite that launched in 2023. According to CNES, TELEOS demonstrated reliable links to the prototype ground station called FrOGS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}