The European Data Relay System (EDRS) will provide optical and microwave data relay services between Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites at altitudes up to 2000 km and the ground through geostationary (GEO) satellite nodes. Currently, two such nodes have been procured as part of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) between Astrium (now Airbus Defence and Space) and ESA. The first node (EDRS-A) is a hosted payload embarked upon the Eutelsat 9B satellite and scheduled for launch in early 2015.
Hosting the first EDRS payload
International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2014 ; 2014 ; Tenerife,Canary Islands,Spain
Proc. SPIE ; 10563
2017-11-14
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
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