{"id":136738,"date":"2022-03-11T18:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/dod-space-agency-funds-development-of-laser-terminal-that-connects-to-multiple-satellite-at-once"},"modified":"2022-03-11T18:31:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:31:21","slug":"dod-space-agency-funds-development-of-laser-terminal-that-connects-to-multiple-satellite-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/dod-space-agency-funds-development-of-laser-terminal-that-connects-to-multiple-satellite-at-once","title":{"rendered":"DoD space agency funds development of laser terminal that connects to multiple satellite at once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dod-space-agency-funds-development-of-laser-terminal-that-connects-to-multiple-satellite-at-once.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Space Development Agency awarded BridgeComm and Space Micro a $1.7 million contract to demonstrate point-to-multipoint communications.<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Each of the satellites in the Pentagon\u2019s planned mesh network of communications satellites could have as many as many as four laser links so they can talk to other satellites, airplanes, ships and ground stations.<\/p>\n<p>Optical inter-satellite links are <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/dod-to-test-laser-communications-terminals-in-low-earth-orbit\/\">critical<\/a> to the success of the Space Development Agency\u2019s low Earth orbit constellation \u2014 known as Transport Layer \u2014 that will be used to route data traffic. Lasers provide much higher transmission data rates than traditional radio-frequency communications but are also far more expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Development Agency awarded BridgeComm and Space Micro a $1.7 million contract to demonstrate point-to-multipoint communications. WASHINGTON \u2014 Each of the satellites in the Pentagon\u2019s planned mesh network of communications satellites could have as many as many as four laser links so they can talk to other satellites, airplanes, ships and ground stations. Optical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}