{"id":57545,"date":"2021-05-12T18:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T10:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mynaric-spacelink-partner-to-accelerate-satellite-laser-terminal-technology\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T18:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T10:06:04","slug":"mynaric-spacelink-partner-to-accelerate-satellite-laser-terminal-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mynaric-spacelink-partner-to-accelerate-satellite-laser-terminal-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Mynaric, SpaceLink Partner to Accelerate Satellite Laser Terminal Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mynaric<\/strong> will supply more than $20 million in laser communication products to <strong>SpaceLink<\/strong> under the terms of a new partnership agreement the two companies announced Wednesday. The partnership closes on what Mynaric believes is the largest direct acquisition of laser communication products by a commercial entity to date.<\/p>\n<p>Mynaric will supply more than 40 Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) and CONDOR terminals to SpaceLink\u2019s data relay network, which aims to provide secure, continuous, high-capacity communications between LEO spacecraft and the ground.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the companies will also work together to expand Mynaric\u2019s terminal portfolio. They will co-develop an OISL terminal that is compatible with the <strong>Space Development Agency (SDA)<\/strong> Transport Layer and another that can service satellites in Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO), where SpaceLink\u2019s relay constellation will operate.<\/p>\n<p>In the agreement, SpaceLink and Mynaric agreed to an option that would increase the number of terminals produced and delivered upon SpaceLink\u2019s expansion of its MEO constellation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work with Mynaric to implement advanced OISL capability into the SpaceLink constellation will ensure performance and interoperability,\u201d SpaceLink CEO David Bettinger said in the announcement. \u201cMynaric has exceptional expertise to advance a new generation of OISLs that address our requirements and our mission to speed massive amounts of data to users no matter where they are located on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a January 2021 interview with <em>Via Satellite<\/em>, Bettinger explained the nature of the bandwidth that links his company\u2019s relay system. \u201cWe have a special Ka-band that goes between the LEO and our relay satellite, and a much higher frequency, a V-band frequency, that goes between the MEOs. Our downlink to the ground will be a traditional Q- and V-band gateway connectivity,\u201d Bettinger said in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Mynaric\u2019s terminals have a data rate of 10 Gbps when satellites are approximately 4,500 km apart, and a higher date of 20 Gbps can be achieved if the satellites are 3,500 km apart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mynaric will supply more than $20 million in laser communication products to SpaceLink under the terms of a new partnership agreement the two companies announced Wednesday. The partnership closes on what Mynaric believes is the largest direct acquisition of laser communication products by a commercial entity to date. Mynaric will supply more than 40 Optical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57546,"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-57545","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\/57545"}],"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=57545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}