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Telesat and Cobham SATCOM (formerly Thrane & Thrane) have announced an agreement to deploy high-performance Cobham SATCOM three-axis TRACKER 4000 terminals for the Telesat Lightspeed Landing Station network.

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Mynaric has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to analyse, design, build and test on a laboratory model an end-to-end optical communication system that can achieve data transmission speeds of 1 Terabit per second (Tbps).

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Polish satellite manufacturer, SatRevolution, has announced its partnership with German-based DcubeD. SatRevolution are flying DcubeD’s payload onboard its SWIFT satellite that was launched on 13 January 2022 with SpaceX Transporter 3 mission from Cape Canerveral.

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Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2; Date: 31 January 2022, 1111 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, USA. Fifteen minutes after the separation from its launcher, the satellite was acquired and controlled by Telespazio’s Space Centre based in Fucino.

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