The Ground Laser Transmitter at the Kryoneri Observatory pointing at the moon. Credit: European Space Agency The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

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 Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver is shown at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California in April 2021, before being integrated with ...

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) tech flying aboard Psyche spacecraft has been successfully demonstrated. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

NASA has sent test data nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers), encoded on a near-infrared laser. The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment sent data to Earth from the Psyche ...

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 ...

On July 7, ESA, the European Space Agency, successfully established Europe’s first deep-space optical communication link with NASA’s Psyche mission using a high-power fiber laser system from NKT ...

The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA’s future human missions to Mars. NASA’s Deep Space Optical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) tech flying aboard Psyche spacecraft has been successfully demonstrated. Credit: ...

ESA has made Europe’s first deep-space optical link with NASA’s Psyche mission. ESA’s multi-beam high-power fiber laser transmission system. On July 7, the European Space Agency (ESA), established ...