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Auteurs principaux: Nair, Anish, Connell, Austin O', Arulpragasam, Shalomi, Kim, Noah
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2025
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11629
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author Nair, Anish
Connell, Austin O'
Arulpragasam, Shalomi
Kim, Noah
author_facet Nair, Anish
Connell, Austin O'
Arulpragasam, Shalomi
Kim, Noah
contents This work investigates the feasibility and design trade-offs for a companion spacecraft, or PaddleSat, to charge a host spacecraft by wirelessly transmitting power using a directional laser system. The primary goal of the PaddleSat is to supplement power on a host spacecraft to reduce the requirements for onboard power systems of the host spacecraft or extend mission lifetimes. System performance estimates, link budget calculations, optical transmission hardware and link analysis, design tradeoffs between beam divergence, optical efficiency, and relative orbital control requirements are examined.
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spellingShingle PaddleSat Optical Charging Station in Space
Nair, Anish
Connell, Austin O'
Arulpragasam, Shalomi
Kim, Noah
Signal Processing
This work investigates the feasibility and design trade-offs for a companion spacecraft, or PaddleSat, to charge a host spacecraft by wirelessly transmitting power using a directional laser system. The primary goal of the PaddleSat is to supplement power on a host spacecraft to reduce the requirements for onboard power systems of the host spacecraft or extend mission lifetimes. System performance estimates, link budget calculations, optical transmission hardware and link analysis, design tradeoffs between beam divergence, optical efficiency, and relative orbital control requirements are examined.
title PaddleSat Optical Charging Station in Space
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11629