This year, Lasar – an ambitious team of students – will send a satellite to the Earth’s orbit. HiLASE Centre contributed to its development. Head of the Lasar team, Simon Klinga, introduced the satellite and its features in the broadcast of Czech Television.
„Our satellite will be a kind of perfect target in the sky, with us shooting a laser up and trying to hit that target,“ explains the young visionary. „The reason why it is not an easy task to reboot or drop space debris with laser sis that the armosphere consumes the vast majority of the energy of that laser. What we will be testing, is that this target, or our satellite, will allow us to measure exactly how much energy is getting up there, also in relation to the weather and climatic conditions.“
The HiLASE Centre’s collaboration with Lasar involves developing optical components and taking the necessary technology another step further. The HiLASE team, led by Radek Pobořil and Jan Vanda, who are involved in the development of space technologies, created a parabolic mirror for the satellite. In its centre will be located the material that will be vaporised by the beam of our laser system. This will help the Lasar team to further understand techniques for removing space debris.
In addition to the HiLASE Centre, the Lasar team has been supported by a number of organisations with which it is collaborating on the satellite development. These include: Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CRYTUR, SQS Fibre Optics, OptiCE Photonics, TTS, Mír Theatre, Brno Technical Museum, Spacemanic, Planetum, Czech Aerospace Research Centre, Skyfox Labs and Vorkloster.
