Flying Laptop

The German Flying Laptop satellite, launched on 14 July 2017 on a Soyuz launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan,[1] hosts the OSIRISv1 laser communications experiment.[2] The satellite has a total mass of 110 kg.[3] It operates at a 600 kilometres (370 mi) sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of 97.6 degrees.[4]

The satellite is part of the Stuttgart Small Satellite Program, a program led by the German Space Agency.

Optical communications tests have been carried out with ground stations in Japan, Europe, and Canada,[5] with a data rate of up to 200 Mbps, from orbit to ground only.

The two fixed lasers of OSIRISv1 are aimed at ground stations by 'body pointing', attitude control of the entire satellite, using four reaction wheels.[3] The reaction wheels can be desaturated using three internal magnetorquers.[3]

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References
  1. "'Flying Laptop' and 'TechnoSat' successfully launched". www.dlr.de. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  2. DLR laser terminal in space establishes contact with Japanese ground station Mar 2021
  3. OSIRISv1 on Flying Laptop: Measurement Results and Outlook preprint Fuchs 2019
  4. "Flying Laptop". www.eoportal.org. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  5. Japan-Germany international joint experiment on space optical communication Mar 2021
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