HYPERION

航空运输业迫切需要高带宽无线通信技术，以便在进近和着陆阶段快速卸载商用飞机数据，如安全、系统性能和健康监测数据，以提高运营效率。自由空间光通信技术为射频技术提供了一种有吸引力的替代方案，因为它提供了点对点数据链路，可能具有高数据速率（例如Gbit/s）。它们不受拦截或干扰，不需要频谱许可，并且可以通过低功耗和轻量级组件实现。该项目与牛津大学合作开展，将提供具有精确跟踪功能的高带宽光学数据链演示器（眼睛安全），使商用飞机的操作数据以及无人机平台的任务数据“在飞行中”卸载成为可能。

The air transport industry has urgent requirements for high-bandwidth wireless communications technology to enable fast offloading of commercial aircraft data, such as security, system performance and health monitoring data, during approach and landing phases, for more efficient operation. Free space optical communications technology provides an attractive alternative to RF technologies , as it offers point to point datalinks, potentially at high datarates (e.g. Gbit/s). These are immune to interception or jamming, require no spectrum licensing and can be achieved with low-power and lightweight components. This project carried out in partnership with Oxford University will deliver a high-bandwidth optical data link demonstrator (eye-safe) with precision tracking, enabling the "on-the-fly" offload of operational data from commercial aircraft as well as mission data from UAV platforms.