Emma Harvey of Nexus Media Events previews the 30th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Exhibition, which ...

The launch today of NASA’s Psyche mission to visit a metal asteroid will include an extra bonus, as the spacecraft will carry a test of a new communications system. Testing Space Lasers for Deep Space ...

The proof-of-concept demonstration took place in July and will inform future satellite development and operations.

The Kepler Network aims to streamline on-orbit communications with a network infrastructure designed to act as Internet exchange points (IXP) for space-to-space data relay. Credit: Kepler ...

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 ...

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)—the trusted industry association for the connected world—announced it will ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and Kepler Communications have reported a successful air-to-space optical communications demonstration ...

Researchers at EPFL and Harvard University have engineered a chip that can convert between electromagnetic pulses in the terahertz and optical ranges on the same device. Their integrated design could ...

Researchers have developed a new air-core optical fiber that guides light through air rather than solid glass, resulting in ...

Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week based in Los Angeles. Laser-Link Communications Industry Hits Stride Ahead Of SDA Launches is available to both Aviation Week & Space ...