Airbus has completed coupling the communications and service modules for Skynet 6A, marking progress in developing the United Kingdom’s next-generation military communications satellite. The assembly was completed at the National Satellite Test Facility in Harwell, Oxfordshire, operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s RAL Space. According to Airbus, Skynet 6A, built at the company’s facilities in Stevenage and Portsmouth,...
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