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NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and a NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun’s radiation lifted off at 5:19 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 7. The ...

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It’s been quite a year for laser communications in space. In October and November, NASA launched two pioneering demonstrations to test high-bandwidth optical communication links, and these tech demos ...

The Russian spacecraft Foton-M2 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today at 12.00 UTC. The spacecraft carries a communication system, called Telescience Support Unit, which has ...

The demand for ultra-high-speed, low-latency, and highly secure communication networks is driving research into extreme-band technologies, particularly in the terahertz (THz) and optical wireless ...

Figure 1: Schematic of a quantum key distribution system. The transmitter (Alice) and receiver (Bob) generate composable keys by transmitting quantum states over an insecure quantum channel, ...