The Ground Laser Transmitter at the Kryoneri Observatory pointing at the moon. Credit: European Space Agency The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical ...

The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver is shown at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California in April 2021, before being integrated with ...

The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA’s future human missions to Mars. NASA’s Deep Space Optical ...

NASA has sent test data nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers), encoded on a near-infrared laser. The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment sent data to Earth from the Psyche ...

An innovative experiment flying aboard NASA's Psyche mission just hit its first major milestone by successfully carrying out the most distant demonstration of laser communications. The tech demo could ...

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

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will transport four astronauts around the Moon, bringing the agency one step closer to sending the first astronauts to Mars. Throughout Artemis II, astronaut voice, images, ...

NASA's Psyche has set a new benchmark for space communications. In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of 494 ...

On July 7, ESA, the European Space Agency, successfully established Europe’s first deep-space optical communication link with NASA’s Psyche mission using a high-power fiber laser system from NKT ...