ESA Awards Thales Alenia Space Multi-Orbit Optical Link Contract

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Thales Alenia Space says it has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to design, build and test an all-optical, high-data-rate, multi-orbit, space-based data transfer network. The demonstration, under project HydRON—for High-Throughput Optical Space Network—builds on studies Thales...
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Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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