Experimental results on in-orbit technology demonstration of SOLISS
Kyohei Iwamoto, Hiromitsu Komatsu, Shinji Ohta, Yasushi Kubo, Takashi Nakao, Hiroaki Yamazoe, Toshiaki Kamata, Yasushi Munemasa, Hiroo Kunimori, Morio Toyoshima, Daiki Koda, Hirotaka Sawada, Toshitami Ikeda
Abstract
SOLISS is designed for technology demonstration of small laser communication terminal connecting to optical ground station from International Space Station (ISS) and its name came from Small Optical Link for ISS. It was successfully launched on 25th Sep., 2019 and achieved to demonstrate bi-directional communication as its extra success. SOLISS is jointly developed with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and also jointly developed special functions of optical ground station with National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). We discuss and report in-orbit demonstration and its result.