The demand for high-speed internet has been growing in recent years. The global internet traffic is also growing by 25% annually but millions of people in remote and rural areas still struggle with ...

Launching this summer, NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will showcase the dynamic powers of laser communications technologies. With NASA’s ever-increasing human and robotic ...

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 ...

Bengaluru start-up Qosmic raises $3.33M to revolutionize satellite data transfer with laser-based optical communication ...

NASA uses the International Space Station—a football field-sized spacecraft orbiting Earth—to learn more about living and working in space. For more than 20 years, the space station has provided a ...

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Spacecraft typically use radio-based communication systems to talk to Earth. But in the future, lasers may become part of astronauts’ communications arsenal. Late last month, NASA announced that its ...

For the longest time, space-to-Earth communications have focused on radio-based systems to communicate to the home base and bring information from its findings, but that is soon to change with NASA's ...

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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 ...