Liftoff of the EDRS-A payload aboard a Proton launcher
Liftoff of the EDRS-A payload aboard a Proton launcher
The first component of Europe’s ‘Data Highway in Space’ has been launched. The initial node of the European Data Relay System (EDRS), carried on board the Eutelsat commercial telecommunications satellite Eutelsat 9B, took off en-route to geostationary orbit – 36,000 kilometres above Earth – on 29 January 2016 at 23:20 CET from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
