Thales Alenia Space will build the HydroN demonstration system on behalf of ESA, the first multi-orbital optical communication network

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Thales Alenia Space will build the HydroN demonstration system on behalf of ESA, the first multi-orbital optical communication network

Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales 67% and Leonardo 33%, announced that it has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the HydroN (High-throughput Optical Space Network) demonstration system, Demonstration System (DS) — Element #2 — in particular for the design, development, deployment and in-orbit demonstration of a complete “end-to-end” system to verify and validate the world's first multi-orbit, all-optical…