Attached to the Orion spacecraft is a key piece of technology developed over decades in Lexington, Massachusetts.

NASA says its Artemis II mission will carry a laser communications terminal built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory aboard the Orion ...

The new system, known as the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications system, or O2O, will allow astronauts aboard Orion to ...

When four astronauts fly around the Moon aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft on Artemis II, they are slated to carry a laser ...

The satellites rely on optical communications terminals, or OCTs, to exchange data via laser links, forming the mesh network ...

Traveling to the moon presents significant communication challenges. Astronauts cannot simply use their cell phones to FaceTime with NASA, and the farther away they are from Earth, the more difficult ...

The demand for high-speed internet has been growing in recent years. The global internet traffic is also growing by 25% annually but millions of people in remote and rural areas still struggle with ...

Nasa has successfully sent a laser signal about 290 million miles, smashing previous records and potentially transforming our exploration of the solar system. The milestone was reached by Nasa’s Deep ...

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SES, a leading space solutions company, announced today it will test new optical ground stations built by France-based Cailabs to send data from space using laser beams ...

Laurynas Maciulis is the co-founder and CEO of Astrolight. The experiment was among the first to test laser communications ...