Après six mois de vérifications, le deuxième nœud du réseau de communication laser le plus sophistiqué sur orbite s’apprête à entrer en service.
Airbus reports that the SpaceDataHighway data relay system has now achieved 10,000 successful connections and 99.8% reliability.
The Airbus-operated SpaceDataHighway has begun regularly relaying data from the Sentinel-2A satellite, after the successful end of the commissioning period, marking what Airbus calls “a new era for space-based imagery users”.