France, Cyprus, Greece to develop optical communications system for Hellas Sat 5 satellite
Hellas Sat, the French Space Agency (CNES), Thales Alenia Space, and Safran have teamed up to develop a next-generation optical communications system to be hosted on the future Hellas Sat 5 geostationary telecommunications satellite and the associated optical ground station to be deployed in Cyprus. The partners aim to deliver high-throughput data transfer services from geostationary orbit, enabling satellite communications for critical applications.