Mynaric AG announced an important product milestone of its CONDOR Mk3 optical communications terminals. After an intensive test campaign, CONDOR Mk3 passed optical verification and phase 1 of interoperability tests in context of the Tranche 1 program of the Space Development Agency (SDA) confirming the product's compliance with the SDA's Optical Communications Terminal (OCT) Standard. Mynaric will supply the CONDOR Mk3 terminals to Northrop Grumman's satellites for the Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking Layer programs. A first round of optical verification tests, conducted at Mynaric's German facilities, confirmed pointing, acquisition and tracking as well as the communications capabilities of Mynaric's CONDOR Mk3 product that are required for establishing optical inter-satellite links between satellites.

Subsequent optical interoperability tests, conducted at the Naval Research Lab, successfully demonstrated the product's capability to optically interconnect with terminals from other vendors.