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| author | Rattenbury, Nicholas J. Ashby, Joseph Bennet, Francis Birch, Marcus Cater, John E. Ferguson, Kate Giggenbach, Dirk Grant, Ken Knopp, Andreas Knopp, Marcus T. Kruzins, Ed Lambert, Andrew Mudge, Kerry Qualtrough, Catherine Raffa, Samuele Rittershofer, Jonas Sayat, Mikhael Schediwy, Sascha Schwarz, Robert T. Sellars, Matthew Thearle, Oliver Travouillon, Tony Walker, Kevin Walsh, Shane Weddell, Stephen |
| author_facet | Rattenbury, Nicholas J. Ashby, Joseph Bennet, Francis Birch, Marcus Cater, John E. Ferguson, Kate Giggenbach, Dirk Grant, Ken Knopp, Andreas Knopp, Marcus T. Kruzins, Ed Lambert, Andrew Mudge, Kerry Qualtrough, Catherine Raffa, Samuele Rittershofer, Jonas Sayat, Mikhael Schediwy, Sascha Schwarz, Robert T. Sellars, Matthew Thearle, Oliver Travouillon, Tony Walker, Kevin Walsh, Shane Weddell, Stephen |
| contents | Networks of ground stations designed to transmit and receive at optical wavelengths through the atmosphere offer an opportunity to provide on-demand, high-bandwidth, secure communications with spacecraft in Earth orbit and beyond. This work describes the operation and activities of current Free Space Optical Communication (FSOC) ground stations in Germany and Australasia. In Germany, FSOC facilities are located at the Oberpfaffenhofen campus of the Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center, DLR), the Laser-Bodenstation in Trauen (Responsive Space Cluster Competence Center, DLR), and the Research Center Space of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich in Neubiberg. The DLR also operates a ground station in Almeria, Spain as part of the European Optical Nucleus Network. The Australasian Optical Ground Station Network (AOGSN) is a proposed network of 0.5 -- 0.7m class optical telescopes located across Australia and New Zealand. The development and progress for each node of the AOGSN is reported, along with optimisation of future site locations based on cloud cover analysis. |
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| spellingShingle | Update on the German and Australasian Optical Ground Station Networks Rattenbury, Nicholas J. Ashby, Joseph Bennet, Francis Birch, Marcus Cater, John E. Ferguson, Kate Giggenbach, Dirk Grant, Ken Knopp, Andreas Knopp, Marcus T. Kruzins, Ed Lambert, Andrew Mudge, Kerry Qualtrough, Catherine Raffa, Samuele Rittershofer, Jonas Sayat, Mikhael Schediwy, Sascha Schwarz, Robert T. Sellars, Matthew Thearle, Oliver Travouillon, Tony Walker, Kevin Walsh, Shane Weddell, Stephen Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Networks of ground stations designed to transmit and receive at optical wavelengths through the atmosphere offer an opportunity to provide on-demand, high-bandwidth, secure communications with spacecraft in Earth orbit and beyond. This work describes the operation and activities of current Free Space Optical Communication (FSOC) ground stations in Germany and Australasia. In Germany, FSOC facilities are located at the Oberpfaffenhofen campus of the Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center, DLR), the Laser-Bodenstation in Trauen (Responsive Space Cluster Competence Center, DLR), and the Research Center Space of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich in Neubiberg. The DLR also operates a ground station in Almeria, Spain as part of the European Optical Nucleus Network. The Australasian Optical Ground Station Network (AOGSN) is a proposed network of 0.5 -- 0.7m class optical telescopes located across Australia and New Zealand. The development and progress for each node of the AOGSN is reported, along with optimisation of future site locations based on cloud cover analysis. |
| title | Update on the German and Australasian Optical Ground Station Networks |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13282 |