Laurynas Maciulis discusses Astrolight's innovations in laser communication, emphasizing its potential to transform ...

Kepler Communications today announced the successful launch of the first tranche of its optical relay satellites aboard a ...

NASA is building optical communications technologies into its networks, using infrared laser links to offer missions higher data rates than comparable radio frequency systems. NASA’s Low-Cost Optical ...

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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) tech flying aboard Psyche spacecraft has been successfully demonstrated.

NASA is experimenting with Invisible beams of light to transmit data to Earth, which can pack 10 to 100 times more information than radio waves. Reading time 4 minutes In December 2023, a tiny, ...

The Space X Twilight mission lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California early Sunday morning carrying 47 ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

NASA's communication medium with the International Space Station (ISS) is now being tested to be laser-powered. The space agency reportedly used laser communication systems to send and stream 4K video ...

Pushing the envelope: NASA is boldly going where no one has gone before with laser communications. The space agency's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment hitched a ride on the Psyche asteroid ...

Let’s think of the last time you sent data without wires. We’re not talking WiFi here, but plain optical signals. Free-space optical communication, or FSO, is an interesting and easy way to transmit ...