Uhura Geostationary Optical Relay Satellite
Skyloom Global Corp.
Skyloom's small, high-capacity, multi-user geostationary optical relay satellite for GEO-LEO and GEO-Ground data transfer.
Technical specifications
- Speed to orbit
- Speed to orbit in GEO: 5 days
- Comms architecture
- Fully regenerative comms
- Optical heads
- Gimbaled optical heads for data relay from LEO/MEO to ground
- Link availability
- RF backup downlink guarantees > 99% link availability from space to ground
- LEO-GEO OCT
- 20 Gbps, LEO - GEO OCT (1550 nm)
- GEO-Ground OCT
- 20 Gbps, GEO - Ground OCT (1550 nm)
- Coverage
- First node planned for Asia Pacific coverage in Q4 2024
About
Uhura is Skyloom’s geostationary optical relay satellite for GEO-LEO and GEO-Ground data transfer, enabling real-time, super low latency data transmission. Designed and built in-house by Skyloom, this small, high-capacity, multi-user optical relay satellite in geostationary orbit perfectly matches the speed of Earth’s rotation, enabling an always-on connection to Skyloom’s ground stations. Because every link in the chain is optical, Uhura breaks the traditional paradigm of GEO-induced latency, forming the backbone relay node of Skyloom’s planetary-scale optical data transport network.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.
