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.

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

In-space manufacturing is a big challenge, even with many of the same manufacturing methods being available as on the ground. These methods include rivets, bolts, but also welding, the latter of ...

Earth just received a laser transmission from a world (and perhaps universe) record-breaking 140 million miles away — which could have major implications for the future of space travel.

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.