Most of us have Ethernet in our homes today. The real backbones of the Internet though, use no wires at all. Optical fibers carry pulses of light across the land, under the sea, and if you’re lucky, ...

In May 2022, the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload onboard a small CubeSat satellite was launched into orbit 300 miles above Earth’s surface. Since then, TBIRD has delivered terabytes of data ...

A long-distance laser communication link between two Earth-orbiting satellites has been established for the first time. The technique allows fast moving, low Earth orbit satellites to relay ...

PARIS — French military authorities have successfully completed their first series of tests establishing optical laser links between an aircraft and a a satellite in geostationary orbit. The French ...

[ashish] sent in this one via the tips line. (Ed Note: link rot. Try this one.) It’s a project to create a laser based RS-232 link. It’s based on cheap laser pointers, a MAX232 and a photo-resistor to ...

Record lunar link: Artemis II’s laser communications sent 484 gigabytes from lunar orbit, delivering unprecedented high-definition imagery and video. Crewed first: It was the first use of optical ...