Operator Hellas Sat, the French Space Agency (CNES), Thales Alenia Space, and Safran have signed a framework cooperation agreement 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.
This partnership will deliver ultra-high-performance, very high-throughput data transfer services from geostationary orbit, enabling faster, more secure and more resilient satellite communications for critical applications. It is built on CNES’s SOLiS project, led by Thales Alenia Space as part of the space component of the France 2030 program, and will demonstrate very high-data-rate laser communications services through the atmosphere.