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NASA Eager to Collaborate With Private Sector on Optical Communications Tech

Optical communications are an up-and-coming alternative to radio frequency-based comms that are attracting the attention of the biggest space companies and agencies. Among them: NASA and Elon Musk’s ...

4 big changes coming to NASA in 2026

From new telescopes going online to another mission to the Moon, NASA has a lot of big changes coming in 2026. Here are some ...
Science Daily

Faster space communication with record-sensitive receiver

In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not ...
The Verge

NASA fired its space lasers to communicate with the ISS

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 ...
Gizmodo

Pew Pew: Space Lasers Could Change How We Talk to Mars and Beyond

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, ...
EurekAlert!

World's first successful 2 Tbit/s free-space optical communication using small optical terminals mountable on satellites and HAPS

Figure 1: NICT's 7.4 km, 2 Tbit/s horizontal propagation experiment (April 2025). The ST terminal was used as the transmitter and the FX terminal as the receiver. The terminals exchanged pseudo-random ...
Hackaday

Beam Me Up: Simple Free-Space Optical Communication

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 ...
Nature

Free-Space Optical Communication Systems

Free-space optical (FSO) communication systems utilise light to wirelessly transmit data through the atmosphere. Such systems offer the potential for extremely high data rates, addressing the growing ...
SpaceNews

Astrolight Demonstrates Space-to-ground Laser Communication Link

Wireless laser communication systems developer Astrolight successfully performed a satellite-to-ground laser communication test using a portable OGS-1 optical ground station. Astrolight, working with ...
SpaceNews

Terran Orbital Successfully Completes Next Step in Demonstrating Space-to-Ground Optical Link on NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 Satellite

Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, today announced the first signal ...
Nasdaq

NEC and Skyloom to Pioneer 100 Gbps Space Optical Communications, Transforming Global Internet Connectivity

TOKYO, Mar 20, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) and Skyloom Global Corporation have joined forces to revolutionize space communications with the development of cutting-edge ...