When NASA's Psyche probe launches in October on its mission to a metal asteroid as much as 309 million miles (497 million km) from Earth, it will be carrying a new laser communications system that ...

In a remarkable demonstration of technological prowess, a Chinese satellite has reportedly outperformed SpaceX’s Starlink by ...

In May 2022, the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload onboard a small CubeSat satellite was launched into orbit 300 miles above Earth’s surface. Since then, TBIRD has delivered terabytes of data ...

The world of science fiction is obsessed with lasers, but real scientists are not too far behind with that tech in real life, deploying it everywhere from watching cellular reactions to attempting Sun ...

Spacecraft typically use radio-based communication systems to talk to Earth. But in the future, lasers may become part of astronauts’ communications arsenal. Late last month, NASA announced that its ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — BlueHalo, the company transforming the future of global defense through mission-critical innovation in the space domain, today announced the successful ...

The final piece to NASA's first two-way laser communication relay system will soon launch to the International Space Station (ISS). The ILLUMA-T terminal, which is about the size of a large chest, ...

Wireless laser communication systems developer Astrolight successfully performed a satellite-to-ground laser communication test using a portable OGS-1 optical ground station. Astrolight, working with ...

Scientists have developed a new platform for the generation and detection of ultrashort UV-C laser pulses on femtosecond ...

ITT Exelis and NOVASOL will build laser communications system to move data around the battlefield for the Navy and Marine Corps. ITT Exelis and its partner, Innovative Technical Solutions Inc., known ...