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 ...

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 astronauts Kayla Barron and Raja Chari describe how nonverbal communication in employed on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA ...

[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 ...