How Astrogate is building high-tech optical satellite communication tech

Bengaluru-based Astrogate Labs is working on an optical laser-based satellite communication technology that promises many advantages over traditional radio frequency transmission. Optical transmission can potentially offer higher bandwidth connections with lower data rates, while eliminating the need for high spectrum licensing costs.

“Modern satellites can generate over 100GB of data every day. If you use radio frequency transmission to download that data, you would hardly transfer 20 to 25 per cent of the data in a day. With our optical transmission technology, you will get more than 20 times that bandwidth,” Nitish Singh, cofounder and CEO of Astrogate Labs to indianexpress.com said in a video interaction.