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Commercial laser comm edges closer to reality

“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 ...

China Beamed Gigabit Internet From Space Using Low-Power Lasers: Here's How It Worked

While the raw speed isn't too impressive, it was achieved using a laser with less power than an energy-saving lightbulb.
Yahoo Finance

Space-Based Laser Communication Market Expanding at a 16.5% CAGR on Rising Demand for High-Speed Satellite Data Links - Market Research Intellect

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 ...
Hackaday

laser communication

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 ...
ABC7 San Francisco

'First light': NASA receives laser-beamed message from 10 million miles away

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 ...
Phys.org

NASA's space station laser comm terminal achieves first link

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 ...
abc27

Japanese satellite laser-comm and SAR startups start studies to accelerate satellite imagery acquisition

WARPSPACE and Synspective have agreed to proceed with verification using software to analyze data acquisition frequency and speed when using WarpHub InterSat. TSUKUBA ...
SpaceNews

Laser communications company Mynaric opens Washington office

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 ...
AFCEA

The Evolving World of All-Weather Laser SATCOM

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 ...
The National Interest

Will Laser Communications Soon Become Reality in the U.S. Military?

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 ...
Popular Science

NASA is testing space lasers to shoot data back to Earth

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