Thales Alenia Space Leads French Laser-Comms Satellite Effort

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Credit: Thales Alenia Space/Briot
Thales Alenia Space says that the French government has appointed the Franco-Italian joint venture to lead development of a laser communications system in geostationary orbit. The secure optical space link service project, or Solis by its French acronym, is supposed to provide a hard-to-disrupt...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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