Kyocera announced that its fine cordierite mirror has been adopted for the world’s first small optical communication experimental device for optical communication between the International Space Station (ISS) and a portable optical ground station.

The fine cordierite mirror (photo) has been adopted for the optical communication antenna (Quantum-Small Optical Link, hereafter referred to as QSOL) developed by Sony Computer Science Laboratories. QSOL will be the optical communication antenna part of the low-orbit highly secure optical communication device “SeCRETS (SeCuRe lasEr communicaTionS terminal for LEO)” developed for an on-orbit technology demonstration jointly by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering, Next Generation Space System Technology Research Association, SKY Perfect JSAT, and Sony Computer Science Laboratories under a contract with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.