WARSAW, Poland \u2014 The Lithuanian space startup Astrolight has announced the successful commissioning of a space-to-ground laser communication link. The link company\u2019s ATLAS-1 laser communication terminal aboard ERMIS-3, an 8U cubesat led by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as part of the ERMIS mission, connected with HolOGS-1, the optical ground station of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.<\/p>\n
To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n
Register now to read
3 free articles this month.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll also receive our weekly Editor\u2019s Choice, SpaceNews This Week and Opinions newsletters. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n
Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJaros\u0142aw Adamowski is a Warsaw, Poland-based correspondent for SpaceNews. He has written for Defense News, the Guardian, the Independent, the Jerusalem Post, and the Prague Post.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jaros\u0142aw Adamowski\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARSAW, Poland \u2014 The Lithuanian space startup Astrolight has announced the successful commissioning of a space-to-ground laser communication…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[115679,261819,591,20819,90,1957,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-astrolight","tag-ermis","tag-europe","tag-optical-communications","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}