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The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has successfully demonstrated 2 Tbit/s Free-Space ...

The Russian spacecraft Foton-M2 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today at 12.00 UTC. The spacecraft carries a communication system, called Telescience Support Unit, which has ...

Weather forecasting has long been a crucial tool for modern society, shaping agriculture, energy management, climate science, ...

China’s latest space communications experiment has reset expectations for what a “low power” link from orbit can do, with a 2 watt laser pushing data at gigabit speeds from geostationary distance and ...

In the race to secure digital infrastructure against the looming threat of quantum computing, space has emerged as an indispensable theater. Satellites, once primarily vehicles for reconnaissance and ...

NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) test bed has begun its experiments after completing its checkout on the International Space Station. The SCaN test bed is an advanced, integrated ...

The SpeQtre satellite carries advanced quantum hardware designed by SpeQtral to explore secure space-based quantum communications. It represents a notably difficult technical challenge – demonstrating ...

A laser communications experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission has beamed back a video to Earth from nearly 19 million miles away — and the short clip stars a cat named Taters. It’s the first ...

Communications using a light beam isn’t a new idea, even outside of “Star Trek,” “Star Wars” and other similar tales of fantasy. Scientist and science fiction writer Arthur Clarke forecasted ...