baseURL: '' title: PeakSAT languageCode: en-us DefaultContentLanguage: en enableEmoji: true enableGitInfo: true enableRobotsTXT: true canonifyURLs: true paginate: 9 darkmode_js: - assets/js/darkmode.js enableInlineShortcodes: true markup: goldmark: extensions: definitionList: true footnote: true linkify: true linkifyProtocol: https strikethrough: true table: true taskList: true typographer: apostrophe: '’' disable: false ellipsis: '…' emDash: '—' enDash: '–' leftAngleQuote: '«' leftDoubleQuote: '“' leftSingleQuote: '‘' rightAngleQuote: '»' rightDoubleQuote: '”' rightSingleQuote: '’' parser: attribute: block: false title: true autoHeadingID: true autoHeadingIDType: github wrapStandAloneImageWithinParagraph: true renderer: hardWraps: false unsafe: true xhtml: false params: author: SpaceDot authorimage: ../assets/images/global/author.webp og_image: /images/tailbliss-cover.png moto: "A 3U Optical Communications Mission" description: "Started in 2023, PeakSAT is a 3U CubeSat mission designed in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It aims to demonstrate the capability of performing laser links with Optical Ground Stations in Greece, and to pave the way for a space-based quantum communications network." disable_theme_toggle: false disable_stay_uptodate: false p1: heading: "Find us at TIF!" image: "images/pages/event_1.jpg" content: - text: "AcubeSAT and PeakSAT will be present at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) from **9 to 17 September 2023**. Come visit us at the `akademia` pavilion **(Pavilion 14, AUTh stand)** to learn more about our missions and our projects." p2: heading: "The mission" image: "images/global/peaksat_patch_draft_purple.png" content: - text: "PeakSAT is a 3U CubeSat mission that is being designed and developed at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The mission is centred around the demonstration of advanced optical communications technology for both downlink and uplink, using the CubeSat platform." - text: PeakSAT will be composed of COTS components, with the inclusion of some in-house developments and an optical terminal as a payload. The mission aims to achieve a 1 Gbps downlink at C-band and 100 Mbps uplink at L-band with the Holomondas Observatory in Halkidiki. p4: heading: "News" content: - text: "Updates from the development of PeakSat" social_media: github: enabled: false url: 'https://github.com/peaksat' facebook: enabled: true url: 'https://www.facebook.com/spacedot.auth/' instagram: enabled: true url: 'https://www.instagram.com/spacedot.auth/' linkedin: enabled: true url: 'https://www.linkedin.com/company/spacedot/' menu: main: - identifier: about name: About url: /about/ weight: 20 - identifier: news name: News url: /categories/news/ weight: 30 - identifier: spacedot name: SpaceDot » weight: 50 url: https://spacedot.gr/ - identifier: acubesat name: AcubeSAT » url: https://acubesat.spacedot.gr/ weight: 40 footer: - identifier: about name: About url: /about/ weight: 10 - identifier: news name: News url: /categories/news/ weight: 30 markup: goldmark: renderer: unsafe: true taxonomies: category: Categories tag: Tags privacy: disqus: disable: false googleAnalytics: anonymizeIP: true disable: false respectDoNotTrack: false useSessionStorage: false instagram: disable: false simple: false twitter: disable: false enableDNT: false simple: false vimeo: disable: false enableDNT: false simple: false youtube: disable: false privacyEnhanced: true module: hugoVersion: extended: true min: "0.104.0"