World premiere: ONERA establishes an adaptive optics corrected laser link with the geostationary orbit on the 60 cm diameter full aperture of the FEELING optical ground station.

On 5th June, ONERA's optical ground station FEELINGS established a stable two-way laser link with the Airbus Defence and Space TELEO payload in geostationary orbit. This world first was made possible by the adaptive optics system and high-power lasers developed by ONERA. This success paves the way towards the development of secure very high throughput ground-space optical links.