ESA delivers image from orbit via laser-based datalink
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 07:00
in Astronomy & Space
On 28 November, teams at ESA's Space Operations Centre, ESOC, in Darmstadt, Germany, watched intently as the Agency's Sentinel-1 and Inmarsat's Alphasat linked up using laser signals stretching almost 36 000 km across space.