{"id":59539,"date":"2020-06-15T21:42:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planewave-wins-contract-to-build-optical-ground-station-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2020-06-15T21:42:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:42:55","slug":"planewave-wins-contract-to-build-optical-ground-station-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planewave-wins-contract-to-build-optical-ground-station-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"PlaneWave Wins Contract to Build Optical Ground Station in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>PlaneWave Instruments<\/strong> will build, install, and maintain a 700 mm Ritchey-Chr\u00e9tien Optical Ground Station (OGS) telescope at the <strong>Australian National University<\/strong>\u2018s (ANU) Mount Stromlo Observatory, the company announced. ANU will use the telescope to track satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and Deep Space and support Free-Space Optical Communication (FSOC).<\/p>\n<p>Matt Dieterich, Technical Services Manager of PlaneWave Instruments, told <em>Via Satellite<\/em> that the telescope will move to track satellites as they move across the sky and center the satellite as to allow lasers to send and receive data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe telescope will collect laser light sent down from the satellite,\u201d Dieterich explained. \u201cImagine fiber-optic internet, just without the fiber, that is FSOC in a nutshell, and the telescope plays the crucial role of collecting the light from the satellite moving across the sky. The telescope will also serve as a platform to send laser light back to the orbit satellite. Similar to radar ground stations for communicating with satellites, FSOC will instead use lasers to do the communication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe collaboration between our entities is dynamic and it will enhance the development of advanced features which include adaptive optics, uplink lasers, quantum communication, [Radio Frequency] RF\/optical hybrids and other techniques,\u201d ANU Institute for Space\u2019s Project Lead Dr. Francis Bennet said in a statement. \u201cThe concept of operations will entail the use of the OGS and current radio-frequency methods in order to take advantage of hardware currently in orbit and those that are planned, including quantum key distribution modules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PlaneWave expects installation of the OGS telescope to be completed during the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlaneWave Instruments will build, install, and maintain a 700 mm Ritchey-Chr\u00e9tien Optical Ground Station (OGS) telescope at the Australian National University\u2018s (ANU) Mount Stromlo Observatory, the company announced. ANU will use the telescope to track satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and Deep Space and support Free-Space Optical Communication (FSOC). Matt Dieterich, Technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59540,"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-59539","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\/59539"}],"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=59539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}