Data transfer between satellites – quick as a wink

The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut supplies a decisive component – a particularly robust and capable pump laser module

Transferring high data rates in real-time twenty-four-seven – a research team, under the direction of the European Space Agency ESA, has now come significantly closer to this aim. For the first time, data have been successfully transmitted between a near-earth and a geostationary satellite over a distance of 40,000 kilometers.
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Press release: 08.12.2014