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Airbus: signed contract for new Bartolomeo platform

With Xenesis and to space-test optical communication terminal aboard facility on ISS

Airbus and Xenesis have signed a contract for a payload slot on the International Space Station (ISS) Bartolomeo platform for the demonstration of their Xen-Hub optical communication space terminal, a greater than 10 gigabyte per second. The terminal was enabled with a technology transfer from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is designed to increase satellite communications bandwidth.The Airbus-built...

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