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The PULSARS swarm is a cluster of satellites that will provide high-speed secure data connections to thousands of sensing devices across a nation. Using multiple close-flying satellites at a fixed location in the sky, the swarm can dramatically increase the amount of data that can be transferred to a device, whilst making sure that the signals cannot be received outside of their intended target zone.
ESA is helping to fund a mission concept study for this idea, proposed by Satellite Applications Catapult Ltd together with Open Cosmos. PULSARS is one of the seven selected ideas of ESA Preparation's open call for innovative new mission concepts enabled by CubeSat swarms. Read more about the selected ideas here.