Network live · 60+ sites Free space optical communication

Unveil the sky.
Make optical links to orbit reliable.

The atmospheric intelligence platform of Miratlas offers a full set of solutions that measure cloud cover and atmospheric turbulence, day and night, in real time, so direct-to-Earth laser communication stays online despite the weather, through site diversity and smarter network routing.

Live Network telemetry Updated continuously
Sites worldwide01+60
Countries0220
Atmospheric data03+60 TB
Growth since 201804+1 TB /mo

Miratlas in 58 seconds 0:58
01 How it worksSite diversity, in three steps

The atmosphere breaks laser links. We measure it.

Clouds, turbulence, aerosols, absorption: the atmosphere degrades or cuts an optical link between an Optical Ground Station (OGS) and a satellite. A Sky Monitor next to each OGS, or on a candidate site before one is built, quantifies exactly what the sky allows, so operators pick the right sites and the network reroutes before a link drops.

SITE A · OGS
Cloud cover
Turbulence r₀
Link
Clear sky · link active Mild turbulence · link holds Strong turbulence · link degraded, hand over Sky clears · link back on site A Cloud · link degraded, hand over TERRESTRIAL NETWORK Site A OGS + SKY MONITOR Site B OGS + SKY MONITOR
SITE B · OGS
Cloud cover
Turbulence r₀9.8 cm
Link
Fig. 00 · Site diversity handover between two OGS

  1. 01

    Qualify the site

    A Sky Monitor measures cloud cover, turbulence, absorption and weather above a candidate or operating OGS site, 24/7, the statistics that decide where to build.

  2. 02

    Rate the link

    In operation, onboard processing detects a degrading atmosphere and rates the availability of each OGS in real time.

  3. 03

    Hand over

    The network routes the optical link to an OGS with a clear sky, site diversity keeps the connection up.

02 Sky Monitor networkLive deployment map

A global network of Sky Monitors

Every dot is a Sky Monitor measuring its sky right now. Lamarck stations also feed the open research dataset. Click a site for details.

52Sky Monitors
20Countries covered
5Continents covered
17Lamarck stations

Data from every station can be explored and downloaded on DataHub, and visualised live in Grafana.

In the fieldSee the installations
Sky Monitor · Abu Dhabi · AE
Abu Dhabi · AE
Sky Monitor · Cagliari · IT
Cagliari · IT
Sky Monitor · Colorado · US
Colorado · US
03 HardwareSky Monitor

The widest array of passive optical sensors in a single system

Built for continuous, autonomous outdoor operation, the Sky Monitor delivers 24/7 data on cloud cover, turbulence and absorption, the first commercially available instrument measuring turbulence by night and by day.

Sky Monitor instrument
Fig. 01 · Sky Monitor, close-up
System sheet V4 Sheet 01
No.Sensor / propertySpecification
01All-sky visible imager450 – 1000 nm
02All-sky thermal cloud-cover imager8 – 14 µm
03Night-time turbulenceC-DIMM on Alt-Az tracking mount
04Daytime turbulenceSun Scintillation Sensor
05MeteorologyIntegrated weather station
06Onboard processingLinux, partially open-source
07Operation24/7 autonomous · low SWaP · carrier grade
08PricingQuoted in € EUR · real-time configurator

Configure options online and receive pricing instantly; we follow up to discuss next steps.

Compact

Partially open-source onboard Linux processing.

ROI driven

A full sensor array producing cost-efficient, actionable data.

Easy to deploy

Portable and lightweight, installed overnight like a weather station.

04 Software & dataFour tools, one network
DataHub interface
Platform DataHub

Explore, monitor and download measurements from the whole Sky Monitor network on one secure, multi-cloud platform, from live series to long-term site statistics. A REST API lets your own systems query the data directly.

REST APIMulti-cloudDownloads
Grafana dashboard
Visualisation Grafana

Live Grafana dashboards on every Sky Monitor: time series of cloud cover, turbulence and weather as charts, alongside the all-sky images captured by the instrument, the sky as seen from your site, updated continuously.

ChartsSky images
LaserCom Pathfinder map
Site planning LaserCom Pathfinder

A geospatial tool for optical ground segment design: compare candidate sites, quantify availability and site diversity, plan network routing for reliable Earth-to-space links.

Sleipnir maintenance interface
Onboard control Sleipnir

The web application running on every Sky Monitor: control and configure the whole instrument, DIMM alignment, network setup, services, logs, diagnostics and results.

On-deviceDiagnostics
05 Open data for researchCC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Lamarck: 19 TB of the sky, open to academic research

Our atmospheric dataset, built since 2018 from the Sky Monitor network, is released under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 to the free space optical communication research community, in partnership with academia, industry and ESA.

  • Study how turbulence, cloud cover and humidity interfere with laser signals.
  • Develop mitigation strategies: adaptive optics, encoding algorithms, site diversity.
  • Simulate real-world link budgets for satellite-to-Earth and terrestrial FSO systems.
Discover Lamarck Request access
Lamarck · Miratlas open atmospheric dataset
19 TBDataset
+1 TB /moGrowth
50+Sites
2018→Time span
06 Mission

Converging satcom and telecom, one measurement at a time

Miratlas is the first industrial player to offer advanced atmospheric data as a service. Since the first Sky Monitor installed for ESA in Tenerife in 2018, we design, produce and operate instruments and models that reveal what the atmosphere does to light, for optical and quantum communication, and for a changing climate.

The same measurements address contrail detection, air pollution and climate modelling.

Markets & applications
07 Early adopters & ecosystem

Trusted by the people who put lasers in orbit

26Organisations
7Agencies & primes
2018First ESA site
Clients
NASADLRAirbusOrangeSSCHoneywellESA
Academics
ETH ZurichONERAUniversity of North DakotaTUDelftFraunhoferDurham UniversityHeriot Watt University
Partners, network & investors
Xinuo PhotonicsTOYO CorporationSolmirusFrench Tech - Aix-Marseille Région SudClub ExcellenceAlliance NewSpaceExpensionGIFASBPI FranceKaristaSAFE ClusterRégion SudPépinières Entreprises Innovantes
08 Get a Sky Monitor

Configure yours and get pricing in real time

Configure your future Sky Monitor with our online tool and get pricing in euros, in real time. Once you submit, we get in touch to discuss the next steps.

Prefer to see the data first? Book a 30-minute demo of DataHub and Pathfinder with our team.

Currency
DistributionMiratlas · Pertuis, France
Delivery & installation~4 weeks on average
Pricing configurator (€)