- Link Establishment
- Find Access Satellites
- “Hardcoded” orbits
- Handover
- Physical Link Type
- Beamforming/No beamforming
- How does laser work
- Multiple Access
- Performance degradation
- Terrestrial client quality of service
- Channel estimation
- Deviation from terrestrial client
- Lifetime of Link
- Channel coherence time
- Client positioning
- Lower / Same / Higher orbit
- Following / Orthogonal / Opposing direction
- 5G / current protocol
- What can be reused
- Performance Analysis
- Vs Legacy Downlink / Uplink
- IP ?
Some notes for interesting things to research
- SpaceX can incorperate FSO for new downlink why cant we?
- How FSO can contribute to continous access instead of intermittent as RF will give you.
- FSO could maybe also enable communication with satellites outside of the constellation?
- How does Starship change this? Bigger starlink satellites → more FSO links?
Out there ideas:
- Something like the new horizon telescope but using the starlink constellation for mars/moon/GEO FSO communication?