In a remarkable demonstration of technological prowess, a Chinese satellite has reportedly outperformed SpaceX’s Starlink by firing a 2-watt laser from a distance of 36,000 km in space. This ...

Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report in The Space Review. The basic idea would be to dazzle the optical ...

While we rely on satellites for global communications, even Starlink only sends data in the Mbps range. China's latest satellite screams past that limitation.

Astrolight says the laser system will provide roughly 10 times the data transfer rate and up to 10,000 times the bandwidth of ...

A small satellite developed by MIT engineers has set a new record for data transmission between a satellite and Earth. The TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) system used a laser to beam huge amounts ...

WARPSPACE and Synspective have agreed to proceed with verification using software to analyze data acquisition frequency and speed when using WarpHub InterSat. TSUKUBA ...

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 ...

A Japanese satellite carrying laser relay technology launched into space Sunday (Nov. 29) on a mission to transfer data at high speeds from military and civilian Earth observation spacecraft. The ...

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 ...

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 ...