Since launch in May 2022, NASA's TeraByte Infrared Delivery (TBIRD) program has successfully demonstrated 100-Gbps and 200-Gbps laser communication downlinks from a 6U CubeSat in low-Earth orbit to a ground station. The TBIRD system operates during 5-minute passes over the ground station and has demonstrated an error-free downlink transfer of > 1 Terabyte (TB) in a single pass. This paper presents an overview of the architecture, link operations, and system performance results to date.


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    Title :

    On-orbit demonstration of 200-Gbps laser communication downlink from the TBIRD CubeSat



    Conference:

    Free-Space Laser Communications XXXV ; 2023 ; San Francisco,California,United States


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 12413


    Publication date :

    2023-03-15





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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