At Lijiang Observatory in southwestern China, the signal did not arrive as a neat, steady beam. It came down from a satellite ...

Large Series C signals scale-up of China’s laser satellite communications sector Shanghai-based laser communications startup ...

NASA’s laser retroreflector arrays aboard GPS III satellites enhance positioning accuracy for Earth navigation and scientific measurements by reflecting laser signals back to ground stations.

Could a laser no more powerful than a household nightlight create the future of satellite communications? From 36,000 kilometers above Earth, a Chinese geostationary satellite pulled off a feat that ...

China has demonstrated a major leap in satellite communication by transmitting data at 1Gbps from geostationary orbit—roughly ...

Astrolight CEO Laurynas Mačiulis explains how laser satellite communication could ease spectrum congestion, increase data capacity, and raise new engineering and policy questions for space ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki Ph.D.) and the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech, President: OBATA Makoto), collaborated with ...

The use of optical lasers between orbiting satellites are commonplace. Less common is using lasers from Earth to satellites.

A new study shows that the Southern Ocean releases far more carbon dioxide in winter than once thought. By combining laser satellite data with AI analysis, scientists managed to “see” through the ...

Laser communication promises data rates in the gigabit to terabit range—significantly higher than conventional wireless connections. Europe wants to expand its expertise in this field and install its ...

All the efforts humanity is currently undertaking to prepare our expansion to the lunar surface will be in vain if a proper lunar power network is not established. A tricky proposition, given the ...

It’s been almost three years since something called the UltraAir came to my attention, but I have to admit, seeing how nothing new about it came to light since 2023, I kind of forgot all about it.