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Agreement Reached to Design and Deploy Two Optical Communication Microsatellites

Sony Space Communications Corporation and Astro Digital Plan 2026 Launch

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Tom Patton
Nov 13, 2024
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A contract for the design, manufacture and launch of two optical communication microsatellites has been signed between Sony Space Communications and Astro Digital. These satellites will each carry an SSCC optical terminal and will showcase SSCC's optical communications technology by establishing high data-rate Lasercom links with each other, as well as …

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