NASA is building optical communications technologies into its networks, using infrared laser links to offer missions higher data rates than comparable radio frequency systems. NASA’s Low-Cost Optical ...

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NASA's groundbreaking Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration has set a new record in deep space laser communication, successfully transmitting a signal over an astonishing ...

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, ...

In a historic breakthrough for interplanetary communication, NASA successfully transmitted a laser message from the Psyche spacecraft to Earth, spanning an incredible 16 million kilometers. This ...

NASA's communication medium with the International Space Station (ISS) is now being tested to be laser-powered. The space agency reportedly used laser communication systems to send and stream 4K video ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has successfully demonstrated 2 Tbit/s Free-Space ...

Pushing the envelope: NASA is boldly going where no one has gone before with laser communications. The space agency's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment hitched a ride on the Psyche asteroid ...

Calling optical systems “the next era of space communications,” NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has selected Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) to host a laser communications relay demonstration (LCRD) ...

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 ...