BridgeSat, SSC Ink Long-Term Partnership Deal

Swedish Space Corp. and BridgeSat agreed to a long-term partnership for BridgeSat to install its satellite optical communications equipment at some SSC earth stations and the two partnering commercially, they said in a news release Friday. "Optical communications is well suited when satellite operators need to downlink large quantities of data, but have limited access to RF spectrum," said SSC President-Satellite Management Services Leif Österbo.