China's 6G Breakthrough: SATELLITE Lasers Transmit Data at 100 GBPS

Описание: China's 6G Breakthrough: SATELLITE Lasers Transmit Data at 100 GBPS

China has made a satellite to ground station transmission speed breakthrough after successfully conducting its first 100Gbps ultra-high-speed satellite-to-ground laser transmission test for high-resolution remote sensing imagery.

The Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd carried out the 6G-tech test. The result is a ten-fold improvement on tests carried out by the same company just one year ago and beats the speeds Starlink offers. The result was described as the “equivalent to transmitting ten full-length movies in just one second.”

Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co owns Jilin-1, the world’s largest sub-metre commercial remote sensing satellite constellation. They carried out the test in late December using a ground station fixed to a truck and one of the 117 satellites in the Jilin-1 constellation.

“Musk’s Starlink has revealed its laser inter-satellite communication system but hasn’t deployed its laser satellite to ground communication yet,” Chang Guang’s Wang Hanghang told the South China Morning Post.

“We plan to deploy these laser communication units across all satellites in the Jilin-1 constellation to improve their efficiency, with the goal of networking 300 satellites by 2027.”

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