OICETS and Artemis

The first bi-directional optical link between KIRARI, the Japanese satellite officially called OICETS (which stands for “Optical Inter-orbit Communications Engineering Test Satellite”), and ESA’s Artemis was made on Friday 9 December at 02:05 UTC.

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