Illustration of three ERMIS technology demonstration cubesats in orbit. Credit: The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Illustration of three ERMIS technology demonstration cubesats in orbit. Credit: The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

WARSAW, Poland — The Lithuanian space startup Astrolight has announced the successful commissioning of a space-to-ground laser communication link. The link company’s ATLAS-1 laser communication terminal aboard ERMIS-3, an 8U cubesat led by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as part of the ERMIS mission, connected with HolOGS-1, the optical ground station of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

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Jarosław Adamowski is a Warsaw, Poland-based correspondent for SpaceNews. He has written for Defense News, the Guardian, the Independent, the Jerusalem Post, and the Prague Post.