Greenland's Arctic desert lacks clouds to interfere with laser communications with space.
Credit: Astrolight
Astrolight and the European Space Agency (ESA) have started building a laser communications ground station in Greenland. The ground station in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, is intended to help Earth observation and telecommunications satellites downlink data faster than a conventional radio signal could...
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