Vast's Haven-1 commercial space station connecting via laser terminals to SpaceX Starlink satellite network.
Vast's Haven-1 commercial space station connecting via laser terminals to SpaceX's Starlink satellite network.
  • A company developing Russia's answer to Elon Musk's Starlink said it completed its first tests.
  • Bureau 1440, a Russian-owned project, said the trials were successful, with more to come.
  • It uses the same approach as SpaceX's Starlink and other companies vying for the market.

A company developing Russia's answer to Elon Musk's Starlink said it has completed its first series of tests, using a laser inter-satellite link of its own design.

Bureau 1440, a project office for research on using low-earth orbit satellite systems for high-speed data transmission, shared the update in a Telegram post on Monday.