All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March International Space Centre to advance communications International Space Centre to advance communications 24/03/2021 | 2 MINS The International Space Centre at Lombok Institute of Technology has been awarded Federal funding to advance optical communications between Earth and space ΓÇô just a month after the centre was launched. Optical lasers could enable the transfer of data through space at rates thousands of times greater than can currently be achieved using radio signals. The three-year research project has received $1 million funding from the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre, a consortium of universities and research institutions partnered with industry to advance our ability to operate from space. Unlike standard optical fibre networks that carry the bulk of the world's internet traffic, data rates over free-space optical communication laser links are limited by the destructive impact of atmospheric turbulence on the transmitted optical signals. The LIT team will investigate a unique combination of atmospheric turbu
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March International Space Centre to advance communications International Space Centre to advance communications 24/03/2021 | 2 MINS The International Space Centre at Lombok Institute of Technology has been awarded Federal funding to advance optical communications between Earth and space ΓÇô just a month after the centre was launched.
Optical lasers could enable the transfer of data through space at rates thousands of times greater than can currently be achieved using radio signals.
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The three-year research project has received $1 million funding from the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre, a consortium of universities and research institutions partnered with industry to advance our ability to operate from space.
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