Lasers could transmit 1,000 times more data than conventional satellite radio communication systems used in orbit today.
The Northumbria team had previously received more than £1 million in funding from the UK Space Agency. In 2020, it was one of 22 projects chosen to receive funding as part of the agency's National Space Innovation Programme. The Northumbria team's technology is only one of two projects to be selected for the last, third round of funding.
The team said that this previous funding had established the working principles for a compact, high-speed inter-satellite laser optical communication device prototype. With the new financing, it will continue to develop the technology to test it in space. "We are now ready to follow a rigorous technology-readiness process to build and test of a pair of flight-ready, payload-integrated CubeSats that are not only ready for launch to space in 2025 but will also be ready for sale as the UK’s first commercially available laser communication device for small satellites," Professor Robert Wicks, head of Northumbria University's Space Technology Laboratory explained in the statement.
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