Sony to build space lasers with new satellite services unit
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Sonyon Thursday said it formed anewcompany that willbuildand supply devices that allow smallsatellites in orbit to communicate with one another via laser beams, dipping into the fast-growingspacesector.
SonySpaceCommunications Corp, registered on Wednesday, is meant to take advantage of laser technology to avoid a bottleneck of radio frequencies. The devices will work betweensatellites inspaceandsatellites communicating with ground stations.
The company did not say when it expects to have its first commercial device operating inspace, whether it has existing customers lined up or how much money it has invested into the technology to date.
There are roughly 12,000satellites in orbit, a number that is projected to increase rapidly in the coming years as rocket companies slash the cost of launching things tospace, and as firms like Amazon andSpaceXbuildvast networks of low-earthsatellites to carry internet communications to all the globe.
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"The amount of data used in orbit is also increasing year by year, but the amount of available radio waves is limited," thenewcompany's president, Kyohei Iwamoto, said in a statement.
SpaceX makes its own laser communications devices in-house and first launched them on its Starlinksatellites late last year.
Sonysaid one of its first successful tests occurred in 2020 when it transmitted high-definition image data by laser from the InternationalSpaceStation to a ground station in Japan.
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