Germany’s DLR, still pushing commercial use of space lasers, readies Compasso mission to Space Station

by Peter B. de Selding

TUPPER LAKE, NY — The German Aerospace Center, DLR, which over the past 20 years has invested more than any other agency to develop space-based laser applications, is continuing to push the technology with a 2026 launch to the International Space Station (ISS).

DLR’s 240-kg Compasso structure will be fitted by robotic arm onto Airbus Defence and Space’s Bartolomeo external platform for at least two years of tests of an iodine laser atomic clock and a space-to-ground link with an . . .

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