Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians assemble the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission.

Measurement data of the power, or “fluency,” of the connection between NASA’s LCOT (Low-Cost Optical Terminal) laser beacon and TBIRD’s (TeraByte Infrared Delivery) receiver provided by Massachusetts ...

Back in May 2023 news broke of the American space agency achieving an important milestone when it comes to space-to-Earth communications: it managed to send back from orbit a staggering 200 gigabits ...

NASA is poised to demonstrate laser communications on multiple missions – to show the benefits infrared light can have for science and exploration missions transmitting terabytes of important data. In ...

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 ...

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 ...