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# ESA signs OHB-led consortium to develop optical tech for navigation
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-02-10-esa-opstar-optical-navigation-contract/
- Published: 2025-02-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T05:00:28.000Z
- Description: ESA signed a contract with a 33-company European consortium led by Germany's OHB System to study and predevelop OpSTAR, an optical time-synchronisation and ranging technology for satellite navigation, ahead of a possible 2025 ministerial decision on a demonstrator.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #verified, #ai-drafted

Verified AI-drafted [European Space Agency press release, 10 February 2025](https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite%5Fnavigation/ESA%5Fto%5Fdevelop%5Foptical%5Ftechnology%5Ffor%5Fnavigation?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that ESA member states will fund an actual in-orbit OpSTAR demonstrator, only a feasibility study.

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