{"id":195864,"date":"2024-09-08T05:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T10:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/spacex-satellites-with-tesat-terminals-achieve-first-laser-data-exchange-for-u-s-military"},"modified":"2024-09-08T05:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T10:22:26","slug":"spacex-satellites-with-tesat-terminals-achieve-first-laser-data-exchange-for-u-s-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/spacex-satellites-with-tesat-terminals-achieve-first-laser-data-exchange-for-u-s-military","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX satellites with Tesat terminals achieve first laser data exchange for U.S. military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-satellites-with-tesat-terminals-achieve-first-laser-data-exchange-for-u-s-military2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Va. \u2014 Two SpaceX-built satellites successfully exchanged data using optical communications terminals in a milestone for the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA), the agency\u2019s director Derek Tournear said Sept. 4.<\/p>\n<p>The satellites, part of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/space-development-agencys-missile-warning-satellites-transmit-first-images\/\">SDA\u2019s Tranche 0 experimental spacecraft<\/a> in low Earth orbit, used laser terminals manufactured by Tesat-Spacecom to communicate. This marks the first time the agency has demonstrated laser communications in space using optical terminals compliant with military standards required for SDA satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had not previously demonstrated laser communications,\u201d Tournear said at a <em>DefenseNews<\/em> conference. He reported that the data exchange occurred on September 3, with the satellites establishing a connection in under 100 seconds and maintaining it for several hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Va. \u2014 Two SpaceX-built satellites successfully exchanged data using optical communications terminals in a milestone for the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA), the agency\u2019s director Derek Tournear said Sept. 4. The satellites, part of SDA\u2019s Tranche 0 experimental spacecraft in low Earth orbit, used laser terminals manufactured by Tesat-Spacecom to communicate. This marks the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195864","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}