The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK Mission (CLICK)
© COPYRIGHT SPIE. The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK mission is a joint Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Florida (UF), and NASA Ames Research Center effort to develop laser communications (lasercom) transceivers. The terminals demonstrate full-duplex intersatellite commun...
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| author | Cahoy, Kerri Grenfell, Peter Crews, Angela Long, Michael Serra, Paul Nguyen, Anh Fitzgerald, Riley Haughwout, Christian Diez, Rodrigo Aguilar, Alexa Conklin, John Payne, Cadence Kusters, Joseph Sackier, Chloe LaRocca, Mia Yenchesky, Laura |
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| description | © COPYRIGHT SPIE. The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK mission is a joint Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Florida (UF), and NASA Ames Research Center effort to develop laser communications (lasercom) transceivers. The terminals demonstrate full-duplex intersatellite communications and ranging capability using commercial components to enable future large constellations or swarms of nanosatellites as coordinated distributed sensor systems. CLICK will demonstrate a crosslink between two CubeSats that each host a < 2U lasercom payload. Range control is achieved using differential drag in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), with attitude controlled using a three-axis reaction wheel assembly and attitude sensors, including star trackers. The lasercom terminals are direct-detect and rate scalable, designed to achieve a 20 Mbps crosslink at ranges from 25 km to 580 km and operate full-duplex at 1537 nm and 1563 nm with 200 mW of transmit power and a 14.6 arcscecond (0.07 milliradian) full width half max (FWHM) beamwidth. The terminals also use a 976 nm, 500 mW, 0.75 degree FWHM beacon and a quadcell for initial acquisition, and a low-rate radio crosslink for exchanging orbit information. The payload transmitter is a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) with fiber Bragg grating for pulse shaping and MEMS fast steering mirror (FSM) for fine pointing, modeled after the MIT Nanosatellite Optical Downlink Experiment. The transceiver leverages UF's Miniature Optical Communications Transmitter (MOCT) including a chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC). The receiver implements both a time to digital converter (TDC) as well as pulse recovery and matched filtering for precision ranging. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1379532023-02-10T19:15:34Z The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK Mission (CLICK) Cahoy, Kerri Grenfell, Peter Crews, Angela Long, Michael Serra, Paul Nguyen, Anh Fitzgerald, Riley Haughwout, Christian Diez, Rodrigo Aguilar, Alexa Conklin, John Payne, Cadence Kusters, Joseph Sackier, Chloe LaRocca, Mia Yenchesky, Laura Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics © COPYRIGHT SPIE. The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK mission is a joint Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Florida (UF), and NASA Ames Research Center effort to develop laser communications (lasercom) transceivers. The terminals demonstrate full-duplex intersatellite communications and ranging capability using commercial components to enable future large constellations or swarms of nanosatellites as coordinated distributed sensor systems. CLICK will demonstrate a crosslink between two CubeSats that each host a < 2U lasercom payload. Range control is achieved using differential drag in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), with attitude controlled using a three-axis reaction wheel assembly and attitude sensors, including star trackers. The lasercom terminals are direct-detect and rate scalable, designed to achieve a 20 Mbps crosslink at ranges from 25 km to 580 km and operate full-duplex at 1537 nm and 1563 nm with 200 mW of transmit power and a 14.6 arcscecond (0.07 milliradian) full width half max (FWHM) beamwidth. The terminals also use a 976 nm, 500 mW, 0.75 degree FWHM beacon and a quadcell for initial acquisition, and a low-rate radio crosslink for exchanging orbit information. The payload transmitter is a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) with fiber Bragg grating for pulse shaping and MEMS fast steering mirror (FSM) for fine pointing, modeled after the MIT Nanosatellite Optical Downlink Experiment. The transceiver leverages UF's Miniature Optical Communications Transmitter (MOCT) including a chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC). The receiver implements both a time to digital converter (TDC) as well as pulse recovery and matched filtering for precision ranging. 2021-11-09T16:17:45Z 2021-11-09T16:17:45Z 2019-07-12 2019-10-24T16:28:30Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137953 Cahoy, Kerri, Grenfell, Peter, Crews, Angela, Long, Michael, Serra, Paul et al. 2019. "The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK Mission (CLICK)." en 10.1117/12.2535953 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf SPIE SPIE |
| spellingShingle | Cahoy, Kerri Grenfell, Peter Crews, Angela Long, Michael Serra, Paul Nguyen, Anh Fitzgerald, Riley Haughwout, Christian Diez, Rodrigo Aguilar, Alexa Conklin, John Payne, Cadence Kusters, Joseph Sackier, Chloe LaRocca, Mia Yenchesky, Laura The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK Mission (CLICK) |
| title | The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK Mission (CLICK) |
| title_full | The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK Mission (CLICK) |
| title_fullStr | The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK Mission (CLICK) |
| title_full_unstemmed | The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK Mission (CLICK) |
| title_short | The CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK Mission (CLICK) |
| title_sort | cubesat laser infrared crosslink mission click |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137953 |
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