A set of laser retroreflector arrays, or LRAs, will be installed onto two GPS III satellites launching in 2025 as part of NASA’s Space Geodesy Program space instrument network.

DARPA, the U.S. military’s advanced research agency, is funding space laser projects amid simmering concerns that America’s strategic adversaries are already developing this satellite ...

As NASA prepares for its Artemis II mission, a groundbreaking lunar laser communications test is set to take place, signaling ...

Of all the space laser ideas that have been discussed, DE-STAR is probably the most well-studied and developed. It would ...

Today that technology exists as the Four Laser Guide Star Facility, which operates the ESO’s Very Large Telescope . Coming in at a respectable 22 watts of power, this calibration tool has been ...

The Deep Space Network is aging and needs to be replaced. Our ability to travel to Mars will depend on a reliable communications system. Can lasers do the trick?

NASA’s laser communications experiment just beamed back a video from space for the first time, and it features a cat named Taters chasing a laser pointer.

Or that a third video cited by space laser conspiracy theorists is actually a time-lapse image of a 2019 SpaceX launch. They’re connecting the dots anyway. Advertisement. Advertisement.

WASHINGTON — L3Harris is making a strategic investment in laser communications company Mynaric with plans to make increased use of that technology for space and other applications.