Astrolight CEO Laurynas Mačiulis explains how laser satellite communication could ease spectrum congestion, increase data capacity, and raise new engineering and policy questions for space ...

NASA is testing 4K video streaming using lasers so that it can provide live coverage of the Artemis Moon landing. NASA is testing 4K video streaming using lasers so that it can provide live coverage ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

a prototype of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, ground receiver detector built by the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. NASA’s Deep ...

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) tech flying aboard Psyche spacecraft has been successfully demonstrated. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s think of the last time you sent data without wires. We’re not talking WiFi here, but plain optical signals. Free-space optical communication, or FSO, is an interesting and easy way to transmit ...

NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget ...