We’re not talking WiFi here, but plain optical signals. Free-space optical communication, or FSO, is an interesting and easy way to transmit signals through light beams. Forget expensive lasers ...

The initiative will offer secure, high-capacity data transfer capabilities, incorporating encryption technologies.

Suni Williams surpasses the most time by a woman on EVA during a spacewalk with Butch Wilmore outside the International Space ...

Traditionally, space missions have relied on radio frequencies for communication. However, laser-based systems offer a data ...

This gave rise to the Manned Space Flight Network, a network of 26-metre antennas specialized for communication in Earth orbit all the way to the moon. The DSN provided support and emergency ...

[NASA] and a team of partners has demonstrated a space-to-ground laser communication system operating at a record breaking 200 gigabit per second (Gbps) data rate. The TeraByte InfraRed Delivery ...