ESA and Germany Reach Agreement on Data Relay System

摘要

The European and German space agencies have reached agreement on how to manage Europe's planned data-relay satellite service for which Germany is the lead investor and German-built laser-optical communications is a key technology, the heads of the two agencies said.rnThe program's backers said the agreement does not mean the European Data Relay System (EDRS) is assured of being built. Financing from other European Space Agency (ESA) nations has been insufficient in the nearly 12 months since the program was tentatively approved by ESA governments in November 2008.