Maintaining reliable communication during space missions is critical. Future missions—especially crewed missions to Mars—are ...

Experts warn Europe must scale optical laser communications across its sovereign space networks, from IRIS2 to HydRON, to ...

Advanced fast steering mirrors deliver the speed and precision needed to maintain laser communication links across expanding ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 6-103 mission successfully launches from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Feb. 24, 2026. Following liftoff, the Falcon ...

NASA and AWS beamed the first-ever 4K video from the Moon at 260Mbps using laser optical comms, far outpacing typical home ...

Seattle-area startup says its technology could be used for orbital tracking and communication as well as for beamed power.

Millions of people watched the historic launch of Artemis II and were captivated by the mission's 10-day journey around the moon as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...