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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With satellite numbers soaring, laser communication is emerging as the solution to radio spectrum congestion in Earth’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The race to establish satellite-to-ground laser communications is heating up. Recently, China achieved a major milestone, which ...

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 ...

A data packet traveling from New York to London through undersea fiber-optic cable covers roughly 6,600 kilometers and takes ...

NASA will soon demonstrate a laser-based communication system between ground facilities and the International Space Station (ISS). The technology will boost data transmission speeds by 10 to 100 times ...

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 ...

SOFs climb aboard a small submersible that affords covert transportation from a submarine to a landing zone. Proposed experiment explores connectivity between submarines and special operations forces.