Space-based adaptive communications node (Space-BACN)
Greg Kuperman, Todd G. Ulmer, R. B. Bogoslovov, Timothy Lockhart, David Ott
Abstract
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a space-based communication node with the goal to create a reconfigurable, multi-protocol intersatellite optical communications terminal that is low size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), easy to integrate, and will have the ability to connect heterogeneous constellations that operate on different optical intersatellite link (OISL) specifications that otherwise would not be able to communicate.
Topics & Concepts
Computer scienceSwap (finance)Node (physics)ConstellationComputer networkCommunications satelliteTerminal (telecommunication)Optical communicationTelecommunicationsComputer architectureDistributed computingElectronic engineeringEngineeringSatelliteAerospace engineeringFinancePhysicsStructural engineeringEconomicsAstronomyOptical Network TechnologiesAdvanced Optical Network TechnologiesAdvanced Photonic Communication Systems