Optical Links Are Enabling Future Space Architectures To Be Reimagined

Graham Warwick March 18, 2022
ESA’s HyDRON satellite communications system project
ESA’s HyDRON project is developing technology for a multiorbit, all-optical, high-throughput satellite communications system.
Credit: European Space Agency
Advances in optical communications are removing decades-old limitations on how satellite systems can be imaged and exploited by easing restrictions long imposed by the physics and regulations surrounding the use of radio frequency links. One of the first markets to reach fruition is that for optical...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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