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Thales Alenia Space to provide X-band Transmitter for South Korea’s KPLO lunar orbiter

Madrid, Spain - To deliver data from Moon to Earth

Thales Alenia Space (TAS) has signed a contract with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, KARI, to deliver the communications equipment for the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter mission (KPLO), a lunar probe scheduled for launch on December 2020. These equipment will be in charge of transmitting back to Earth the data collected by the instruments on-board the orbiter. KPLO is the first step of the...

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Rome, Italy, 10/02/2017 10:45
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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