In a high-altitude test that could reshape the future of global satellite communications, China has successfully transmitted ...

Kyocera developed a laser that can operate at distances up to 100 meters with a wide bandwidth, enabling the transmission of ...

NASA's new moon spacecraft is getting a next-generation communication system. The Orion capsule undergoing preparations for the crewed Artemis 2 moon mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Qube research satellite to test quantum key distribution launched Aug. 16 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare. Credit: Zentrum Fur Telematik Credit: Center for Telematics, Wurzburg Quantum Key ...

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 ...

Kyocera achieves a 5.2Gbps breakthrough in underwater laser communication systems. The new system is 2.5x faster than prior ...