Officina Stellare and Skyloom Global have launched Skyloom Europe, a project to expand optical communications for Europe’s civil and military sectors. The initiative follows newly signed technology, license and teaming agreements between the two companies.
The project will establish a wholly owned Officina Stellare subsidiary in Italy and a high-capacity production facility in Veneto dedicated to optical communication terminals for intersatellite, ground-to-space and space-to-space links. The facility will also support quantum key distribution encryption for secure airborne and space applications, targeting a global optical communications market estimated at $14 billion by 2031.
The companies said Skyloom Europe will draw on Skyloom’s U.S. operations, which supply terminals for the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture and other government and commercial programs.
Gino Bucciol, vice president and chief of business development at Officina Stellare, said the project will strengthen European technological autonomy. “The [new company] and the Skyloom Europe brand are set to transform airborne and space connectivity across European civil and military sectors,” he said.
Officina Stellare has long supplied the defense and aerospace industries with high-technology optomechanical systems. In 2023, the Italian firm provided telescope and dome designs for the EAGLE-1 quantum-secure optical ground station, part of a collaboration between TNO and Airbus Netherlands.
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