A 2-watt laser, no brighter than a nightlight, has just delivered data at 1 gigabit per second from a satellite 36,000 kilometers above Earth five times faster than Starlink, and with a fraction of ...

As NASA prepares for its Artemis II mission, a groundbreaking lunar laser communications test is set to take place, signaling a new era of space data transmission. This collaboration with The ...

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Orion spacecraft orbiting the Moon while using laser communications technology through the ...

One of DARPA’s concerns is that Russia has allegedly developed a nuclear space-based, anti-satellite weapon that may be capable of blinding hundreds of satellites.

Satellite streaks are a blight on astronomy. How much are observations by the Vera Rubin super telescope going to suffer from this contamination?

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force and Lockheed Martin plan to conduct its first-ever laser communications test from a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite. If successful, this technology ...

Researchers in Germany say that they have developed a lightweight and robust telescope for satellite-based laser links that is suitable for series production. A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for ...

Rocket Lab announced plans March 11 to buy its optical communications terminal supplier Mynaric, which entered restructuring last month following production delays and supply chain issues.

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By Stephen Nakrosis Rocket Lab USA said it intends to acquire Mynaric, provider of laser communications, and entered into a non-binding term sheet with certain lenders.

Exail’s ultra-stable laser system will equip CNES’s Optical Ground Support Equipment in Toulouse, France. “With one master laser, and four slave lasers phase-locked to it, Exail’s complex laser system ...