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Aircraft Laser Communication Terminal Under Development

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Tom Patton
Apr 21, 2021
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Airbus and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) have launched a program to develop an aircraft laser communication terminal demonstrator known as UltraAir.

The project, which is co-financed by Airbus, TNO and the Netherlands Space Office (NSO), is part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ScyLight (Secure and Laser communica…

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