NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget ...

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 ...

a prototype of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, ground receiver detector built by the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. NASA’s Deep ...

NASA is testing 4K video streaming using lasers so that it can provide live coverage of the Artemis Moon landing. NASA is testing 4K video streaming using lasers so that it can provide live coverage ...

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, ...

Four parties will verify bidirectional communication by equipping optical wireless communication devices on Low Earth Orbit satellites and HAPS. The National Institute of Information and ...

Figure 1: NICT's 7.4 km, 2 Tbit/s horizontal propagation experiment (April 2025). The ST terminal was used as the transmitter and the FX terminal as the receiver. The terminals exchanged pseudo-random ...