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DARPA Pegs Partners for Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Translator

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ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 15, 2022 — The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected 11 teams to carry out work under Phase 1 of the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node program, known as Space-BACN. The project seeks to create a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal that adapts to most optical inter-satellite link standards, translating between diverse satellite constellations. Space-BACN would create a network of low-Earth orbit satellites to enable seamless communication between military, government, and commercial/civil satellite constellations that are currently unable to...Read full article

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    Published: August 2022
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    optical communications
    The transmission and reception of information by optical devices and sensors.
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