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Space Development Agency to Set Fiber Optic Wave Forms as Tranche 1 Standard

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Space Development Agency to Set Fiber Optic Wave Forms as Tranche 1 Standard
Last June, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) said that it had partnered with the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) to demonstrate and conduct a series of experiments for an Optical Intersatellite Link (OISL) using the General Atomics- developed 1550nm (nanometer) wavelength laser communication terminals (General Atomics Photo)

The Space Development Agency (SDA) wants industry proposals for Tranche 1 of the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) to be compatible with two out of three fiber optic wave forms. The agency plans to release a draft Request for Proposals for Tranche 1 this summer. "There are three main wave forms used in the fiber optics industry," SDA Director Derek Tournear told a C4ISRNET forum on Apr. 21. "In essence, our Tranche 1 optical standard is going to say we…

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