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Spire Achieves Two-Way Laser Communication Between Satellites in Space
First-ever achievement for Spire enhances data transmission security and efficiency The C...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Spire Achieves Two-Way Laser Communication Between Satellites in Space\n\n\n .bwalignc { text-align: center; list-style-position: inside }\n \n\n\n\n\n First-ever achievement for Spire enhances data transmission security and efficiency\n \n\n\n\n The Company will launch additional satellites with optical inter-satellite link technology on the Transporter-13 Rideshare Mission\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Spire Global, Inc.\n \n (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, successfully established a two-way optical link between two satellites in orbit. This achievement marks a major step toward enhancing the speed, reliability, and security of data transmissions for future missions.\n \n\n The satellites, which launched in June 2023, are equipped with optical inter-satellite link (OISL) payloads. The payloads create lasers that send information back and forth between satellites, securely and almost instantaneously, while up to 5,000 kilometers apart. This technology has the ability to enhance applications such as weather forecasting, global communications, and remote sensing for navigation and environmental monitoring by increasing data speeds, enhancing security and reducing data latency.\n \n\n \"Precisely pointing two satellites, across distances equivalent of New York to London, and establishing an inter-satellite optical link is a significant milestone for Spire,” said John E. Ward, Senior Director of Research & Development at Spire. “This achievement places us among a select group of organizations capable of developing and deploying this advanced technology and overcoming the complexities of aligning satellites separated by thousands of kilometers in Low Earth Orbit. Integrating this technology into our future fleet will enhance resilience, improve security, and reduce latency for critical applications.”\n \n\n “We have shrunk what is typically a large optical system—the size of a microwave—down to the size of a tissue box,” added Thomas Carroll, Applied Optics Team Lead at Spire. “Our OISL payload is the smallest on the market, allowing us to deploy this technology on our small satellites while delivering performance previously achievable only with much larger systems. This breakthrough ...