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  • 3. april 2018 kl. 18:26 #317481

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      Progress on ELROI satellite license plate flight prototypes

      The Extremely Low-Resource Optical Identifier (ELROI) beacon is a concept for a milliwatt optical “license plate” that can provide unique ID numbers for everything that goes into space. Using photon counting to enable extreme background rejection in real time, the ID number can be uniquely identified from the ground in a few minutes, even if the ground station detects only a few photons per second. The ELROI concept has been validated in long-range ground tests, and orbital prototypes are scheduled for launch in 2018 and beyond. We discuss the design and signal characteristics of these prototypes, including a PC-104 form factor unit which was integrated into a CubeSat and is currently scheduled to launch in May 2018, and basic requirements on ground stations for observing them. We encourage others to consider observing our test flights.

       

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