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Light through the darkness

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Light through the darkness

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European Space Agency, ESA

1 Views • Oct 17, 2016

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Opto-electronics engineer Clemens Hesse recounts ESA’s progress in optical communications. Europe’s EDRS ‘Space Highway’ is set to return environmental data gathered by the Sentinel satellites to users on the ground. As a next step, in 2020 ESA’s Asteroid Impact Mission will carry its own optical communications terminal, to return precious scientific results from the Didymos binary asteroids, shining a laser back to Earth across a maximum 75 million km of empty space.

To learn more, read his interview here:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/Talking_technology/Light_through_the_darkness

Visit the Talking Technology website:
http://www.esa.int/talkingtechnology