“If you build it, they will come” is the motto of BridgeSat, a company building a network of laser-equipped ground stations for high-speed communications with satellites. “Optical communications is ...

Researchers have built a new platform that produces ultrashort UV-C laser pulses and detects them at room temperature using ...

The Space-based Laser Communication Market is primarily driven by the growing need for high-speed, secure, and reliable data transmission across satellite networks. Increasing deployment of small ...

Although laser communication in space is far from novel, its wide-scale deployment as seen with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet constellation has brought the technology to the forefront like ...

An innovative experiment flying aboard NASA's Psyche mission just hit its first major milestone by successfully carrying out the most distant demonstration of laser communications. The tech demo could ...

A NASA technology experiment on the International Space Station completed its first laser link with an in-orbit laser relay system on Dec. 5, 2023. Together, they complete NASA's first two-way, end-to ...

WASHINGTON — Mynaric, a Germany-based manufacturer of optical satellite terminals, announced Feb. 2 it is expanding its footprint in the United States and opening an office in Washington D.C. The ...

Ultraviolet light has always sat at the edge of human perception, powerful yet invisible, more associated with sterilizing ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Recent advances mean that it should be possible to send data from a drone to a plane or ship using lasers. Early experimentation and research underway at Raytheon ...