Kepler Communications today announced the successful launch of the first tranche of its optical relay satellites aboard a ...

Aerospace company launched 10 satellites Sunday, cementing its position as operator of largest fleet of Canadian-built ...

NASA is building optical communications technologies into its networks, using infrared laser links to offer missions higher data rates than comparable radio frequency systems. NASA’s Low-Cost Optical ...

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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) tech flying aboard Psyche spacecraft has been successfully demonstrated.

NASA's communication medium with the International Space Station (ISS) is now being tested to be laser-powered. The space agency reportedly used laser communication systems to send and stream 4K video ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

NASA is experimenting with Invisible beams of light to transmit data to Earth, which can pack 10 to 100 times more information than radio waves. Reading time 4 minutes In December 2023, a tiny, ...

Pushing the envelope: NASA is boldly going where no one has gone before with laser communications. The space agency's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment hitched a ride on the Psyche asteroid ...