From new telescopes going online to another mission to the Moon, NASA has a lot of big changes coming in 2026. Here are some ...

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In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not ...

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 ...

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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) tech flying aboard Psyche spacecraft has been successfully demonstrated. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Figure 1: NICT's 7.4 km, 2 Tbit/s horizontal propagation experiment (April 2025). The ST terminal was used as the transmitter and the FX terminal as the receiver. The terminals exchanged pseudo-random ...