On Sept. 20, 2026, evaluations of satellite communications technology confirmed that space-based laser communications and optical inter-satellite links (OISL) are transitioning from experimental ...
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...
The advent of the fifth-generation (5G) technology has revolutionized the way we think about communication networks, enabling a plethora of new use cases and scenarios that were not possible with ...
In a review article recently published in Space: Science & Technology, a group of scholars present a detailed review of NS-COM in order to provide researchers with a more comprehensive understanding ...
The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA’s future human missions to Mars. NASA’s Deep Space Optical ...