Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The international space station shoots a laser toward a satellite, which is relaying it back down to earth. Early next month, ...
Over a month ago, Japan’s HTV3 cargo carrier launched atop a Japanese H-II rocket delivering an innovative software-defined radio experiment to the International Space Station (ISS). This new ISS ...
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 ...
China’s latest space communications experiment has reset expectations for what a “low power” link from orbit can do, with a 2 watt laser pushing data at gigabit speeds from geostationary distance and ...
Artemis 2 astronauts will be testing out laser communications around the moon to enable faster transmission of images and video. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
A laser communications experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission has beamed back a video to Earth from nearly 19 million miles away — and the short clip stars a cat named Taters. It’s the first ...
The Space Force launched its X-37B spaceplane late Thursday for its eighth experimental mission. The spacecraft flew from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. While many ...
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 ...
ILLUMA-T could help pave the way for more efficient communications between Earth and distant destinations like Mars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.