Eagle-1 signing
SES CEO Steve Collar (seated, left) and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher sign the contract for the Eagle-1 spacecraft at the International Astronautical Congress Sept. 22.

A technology demonstration satellite for which SES will lead the development could be a prototype of a constellation by the satellite operator providing quantum-encrypted communications.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...