optical beam steering terminal design and optical intersatellite connectivity analysis between proliferated low-earth orbit constellations

Space-BACN is developing a low-cost, reconfigurable optical intersatellite communications terminal that will interconnect satellite constellations. The terminal design will be mechanically gimballed providing hemispherical field of regard coverage. This work describes novel alternate optical beam steering based terminal design, expected performance and realizable interconnectivity between proliferated low-earth orbit satellite constellations