Sony bets on space communication using lasers

The Japanese technology and entertainment multinational Sony announced this Thursday the creation of a new company, Sony Space Communications Corporation (SSC), with which it seeks to enter the growing space communications sector.

The company, founded through its North American subsidiary, will build optical devices that allow small satellites in orbit to communicate with each other using laser beams, thus streamlining communications compared to the conventional system by radio, the Japanese company explained today in a statement.

“Currently there are about 12,000 satellites in space, and the number is expected to increase in the future. The amount of data used in orbit is also increasing year by year, but the amount of radio waves available is limited,” Kyohei Iwamoto, chairman of the newly established SSC, said in the text.

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The devices will work between satellites in space and satellites that communicate with ground stations, and Sony hopes with this system to ensure real-time communications from anywhere on Earth to any satellite in space.

Before starting operations, Sony conducted an experiment with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) this year and completed data file transfer, the technological foundation of Internet services through optical communications.

your device too avoids the need for certain types of licenses that are required for radio communication and it follows the model of other companies such as Amazon or SpaceX that have opted for the construction of low-altitude satellite networks to improve Internet communications.

Source: Elcomercio

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