MUNICH – The SpaceDataHighway system – the world’s first ‘optical fibre in the sky’ based on cutting-edge laser technology – has achieved 10,000 successful laser connections. The reliability rate has reached 99.8 percent, and during the first one and a half years of routine operations these successful connections have downloaded more than 500 terabytes of data.   The system’s satellites are designed to lock on to low-orbiting satellites via laser and collect their data as they … [Read more...] about SpaceDataHighway achieves 10,000 successful laser connections