High speed communications are the backbone of most modern economies. The faster data can be sent to the right place ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Mark Zuckerberg gives first look at lasers in Facebook's connectivity lab. Facebook is developing a laser communications system that can beam data from the sky into communities that will increase the ...