The Kepler Network aims to streamline on-orbit communications with a network infrastructure designed to act as Internet exchange points (IXP) for space-to-space data relay.

Kepler Communications is seeking permission to operate larger but significantly fewer satellites for its proposed data relay constellation, which would now use lasers instead of radio frequencies to connect low Earth orbit customers.

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