Google recently unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research "moonshot" aiming to build a data center in space. The tech giant ...

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has helped to establish that femtosecond comb lasers can provide accurate measurement of absolute distance in formation flying space missions. NPL, along with ...

There was recently a live demonstration of the tech at NASA Glenn in Cleveland. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Getting a live ...

Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day. The vast distances involved will throttle data rates to a trickle. You’re lucky if a spacecraft can send more than a few ...

Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report in The Space Review. The basic idea would be to dazzle the optical ...

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 ...

Thanks to decades of Hollywood influence, when we think of lasers we typically think of laser beams. But this conception is actually quite misguided, as lasers need very specific circumstances in ...

It’s been quite a year for laser communications in space. In October and November, NASA launched two pioneering demonstrations to test high-bandwidth optical communication links, and these tech demos ...

A German satellite transmitted a laser signal to a ground station mounted on a Jeep in a breakthrough test that could significantly alter space-to-Earth communication, speeding it up and avoiding data ...

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, ...

A team of researchers in Japan is working on a system that uses laser beams fired from the ground to knock out pieces of space junk. The growing amount of space junk orbiting Earth poses a serious ...

DSOC uses a 1550nm laser. These diode lasers, also used in fiber optic communication, have essentially no bandwidth. They are almost perfectly monochromatic. Single 193GHz 'tone' with a ~3kHz ...