40 GBit @ 240 GHz across 1 km LoS

Fri May 17 15:22:30 UTC 2013

On May 17, 2013, at 16:30, Warren Bailey <wbailey at satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:

> By not working. At those frequencies you're talking a light moisture pocket taking the entire link down.

Not quite as bad:

http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/int/institut/MA_Publikationen/reichart/COMCAS_25G_link.pdf

The ~ 50 mm/h rain they seem to budget for is not yet quite an "end of the world" torrent, but it's not like you sneeze and the link goes down.
(And if you have more than 50 mm/h sustained, you've got a much, much bigger problem :-)

Grüße, Carsten