Chinese scientists have successfully transmitted data from space to Earth at a staggering 1Gbps speed—five times faster than Starlink—using a low-powered 2-watt laser from a satellite in geostationary ...

Communications using a light beam isn’t a new idea, even outside of “Star Trek,” “Star Wars” and other similar tales of fantasy. Scientist and science fiction writer Arthur Clarke forecasted ...

Commercial satellite company sets 100Gbps speed ... earlier China has achieved a breakthrough in satellite-to-ground laser communications that could pave the way for 6G and other applications ...

The station includes a satellite observatory dome with a diameter of 4.25 meters, a tracking system, a primary high-speed camera and secondary tracking cameras, laser equipment, single-photon ...

scalable communications solutions for satellite operators,” Mačiulis said. Earlier in 2025, Astrolight launched a Danish subsidiary to enhance its commitment to the Nordics and devote resources to ...

To overcome these bottlenecks, the industry is turning to optical satellite communication ... the waves spread out. Laser-based communications differ from radio waves by packing the entire ...

Ending years of speculation, Amazon has acknowledged that its Project Kuiper satellites will use laser-based links ... optical relay network for satellite communications. “Amazon’s optical ...

More information: Eva Fernandez Rodriguez et al, On the feasibility of laser satellite communications from the Martian surface, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.16955 ...

On October 22, the agency showed off mock-ups of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a European Space Agency-led project slated to embark on its mission around 2035. While not the final ...