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Aperture
150 mm
Laser space communication with orbital ground stations.
01 · Acquire
A satellite races overhead.
Low in orbit, moving at seven kilometres a second — its recorders full of data to send home.
02 · Lock
The station locks a laser onto it.
Starlens finds the craft and holds a beam of light steady across the whole sky.
03 · Downlink
Light pours down as data.
Gigabits stream to the ground in a single pass — then straight into the fibre network.
The machine
Meet Arctic‑4.
An optical ground station swaps radio for light — fibre-optic internet, with the last leg beamed through open sky. It folds into a case and stands up on the ice in half an hour.
30 min
Deploy · 2 crew
150 mm
Optical aperture
−50 °C
Rated cold
Why light
Far more data, every pass.
Radio0.0 Gb / pass
Optical laser0 Gb / pass
10–100× the throughput
Pencil-thin beam · hard to intercept
No spectrum licence
Illustrative per-pass figures; optical rates vary with orbit and weather.
Anatomy
Built to hold a moving target.
The eye
150 mm aperture catches the downlink beam.
Tracking turret
Follows a satellite horizon to horizon.
Azimuth drive
Rotates without losing lock.
Ice legs
Self-level on ice, rock, or gravel.
The eye
150 mm aperture catches the downlink beam.
Tracking turret
Follows a satellite horizon to horizon.
Azimuth drive
Rotates smoothly without losing lock.
Ice legs
Four spiked legs self-level on any terrain.
No crane. No foundation.
Four legs bite into the ice and self-level. Two people set it up; then it runs on its own.
Why the North
Built for Canada's North.
Polar orbits cross the high Arctic on nearly every lap — the best place on Earth to catch a pass.
At a glance
Downlink
100 Gbps*
Wavelength
1550 nm
Acquisition
<60 s to lock
Deploy
30 min · 2 crew
Operating
−50…+45 °C
*Target figures for Arctic-4. Provisional, subject to change.
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