Flight configuration for the small optical user terminal

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Aug 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994spie.2123..122g&link_type=abstract

Proc. SPIE Vol. 2123, p. 122-133, Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies VI, G. Stephen Mecherle; Ed.

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The Small Optical User Terminal (SOUT) is an optical communications package for interconnecting a LEO satellite to future optical data relay terminals and is the subject of an ESA development program led by British Aerospace. The baseline terminal has a data rate of 2 Mbps over the return interorbit link and a mass of around 25 kg. Special features include a periscopic coarse pointing assembly, refractive telescope, passive antivibration mount, combined acquisition and tracking sensor, and fiber coupled lasers and receivers. The flight configuration which allows these features to be combined in a compact unit is described in this paper. Details are given of the pointing, acquisition and tracking, optical, and thermal and structural subsystems.

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