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Alphasat laser terminal identifies target

Submit on Monday, November 11th, 2013 22:52

Alphasat’s laser communications terminal correctly identified its target at ESA’s ground station on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands for the first time on 4 November, proving that it can be pointed precisely enough to hit a point more than 36,000 km away.

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