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Mynaric<\/strong> one of the leading providers of industrialized, cost-effective, and scalable laser communications products, has been selected as a key development partner for Phase 2 of the Space-based adaptive communications node (Space-BACN)<\/strong> program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/strong>. <\/p>\n DARPA\u2019s Space-BACN program envisions a low-cost, scalable optical communications terminal that could be reconfigured to work with various optical intersatellite link standards allowing seamless communication among government and commercial LEO satellite constellations. The announcement follows Mynaric\u2019s previous participation in Phase 0 in December 2021 and Phase 1 in August 2022 of the program.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are honored to contribute to DARPA\u2019s revolutionary approach to space-based communications which will enhance our national security,\u201d said <\/strong>Tim Deaver, Vice President of US Government Sales and Strategic Solutions of Mynaric<\/strong>. \u201cWe are at the tipping point of unleashing the full utility of these networks using free-space optical communications technology to create seamless integration and interoperability between both government and commercial satellite constellations.\u201d<\/p>\n The 20-month Phase 2 of the Space-BACN program aims to build a scalable, reconfigurable optical communications terminal. The 14-month Phase 1 focused on creating a benchtop model of a next-generation optical communications terminal following the 15-week Phase 0, which was focused on developing the architectural design of the terminal.<\/p>\n \u201cOur engineering team designs new products with manufacturability in mind which aligns with the core goal of the Space-BACN program,\u201d said Joachim Horwath, Chief Technology Officer of Mynaric<\/strong>. \u201cOur team is ready to build on the progress of the initial phases to develop an optical terminal that is scalable and interoperable without compromising its performance.\u201d<\/p>\n Mynaric\u2019s laser communications terminals are designed and manufactured for mass deployment in government and commercial satellite constellations. The company has been selected for SDA programs by Northrop Grumman for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer and Tracking Layer, by Loft Federal for the SDA\u2019s Experimental Testbed (NExT), and by Raytheon for the SDA\u2019s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program, amongst others. In addition, Mynaric was recently selected by the SDA to contribute to an optical ground station demonstration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mynaric one of the leading providers of industrialized, cost-effective, and scalable laser communications products, has been selected as a key development partner for Phase 2 of the Space-based adaptive communications node (Space-BACN) program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA\u2019s Space-BACN program envisions a low-cost, scalable optical communications terminal that could be reconfigured to […]<\/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":[26,38,20,61],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-leo","tag-satellite","tag-satellite-laser-communication-terminals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770"}],"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=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}