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<\/strong>TESAT<\/strong> and <\/strong>MPB Communications<\/strong> took an important milestone to a new performance level of optical LEO to GEO data relays: The companies successfully demonstrated a 100 Gigabit per second (Gbps) data transmission at 40 W optical output power over a distance of more than 45,000 km in a laboratory environment at MPB Communications’ optical labs in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n Until now, low-earth orbit (LEO) to geostationary orbit (GEO) optical links of the European Data Relay Service (EDRS) achieve data rates of 1.8 Gbps at 2.2 W with multiple links per day in orbit. The 100 Gigabit of data transferred in one second at this new performance level is equivalent to around 300 hours of music streaming.<\/p>\n TESAT and MPB Communications demonstrated the simulation with 40 W (46 dBm) single-mode optical output power at 1536.61 and 1553.33 nm. This is an important step in regard to the development of TESAT\u00b4s SCOT135 Optical Communication Terminal (OCT) for different Multi-Orbit Connectivity scenarios enabled by MPB Communications’ 40 W high-power optical amplifier. This new setup allows the SCOT135 OCT to perform ultra-high data rate optical links over a distance of more than 45,000 km and in GEO to GEO up to 80,000 km.<\/p>\n TESAT\u00b4s product approach enables a customization of the SCOT family to customer needs like link distances that require different output power levels as demonstrated by the collaboration with MPB Communications.<\/p>\n This technological achievement has been supported by ESA contracts 4000140073\/22\/UK\/ND and 4000136553\/22\/NL\/FGL, implemented under ESA\u2019s Optical & Quantum Communications – ScyLight Strategic Programme Line, which forms part of the Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) program within the Directorate of Connectivity and Secure Communications.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TESAT and MPB Communications took an important milestone to a new performance level of optical LEO to GEO data relays: The companies successfully demonstrated a 100 Gigabit per second (Gbps) data transmission at 40 W optical output power over a distance of more than 45,000 km in a laboratory environment at MPB Communications’ optical labs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[26,25,38,20,61],"class_list":["post-6968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-leo","tag-satellite","tag-satellite-laser-communication-terminals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968"}],"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=6968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}