New space communication station built in WA hardware – AlKhaleej Today

Optical telescope. Source: UWAThe University of Western Australia (UWA) will install an optical communication station capable of receiving high-speed data transmissions from space. The communication station can receive data from spacecraft from near-earth orbit (between 160 km and 1000 km above the surface of the earth) to the surface of the moon approximately 384,000 km away.
Dr. Sascha Schediwy, head of the Astrophotonics Group at UWA and the International Center for Radio Astronomy (ICRAR),…

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