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

As the Artemis II Orion spacecraft carries four astronauts on the first crewed lunar ...

Since the Apollo missions in the late 1960s, NASA has relied on radio frequencies to communicate with astronauts in space. The Artemis II mission is the first time astronauts will have a chance to use ...

Draper Technologies was also crucial to the first moon landing, developing the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) and systems ...

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

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

The Qube research satellite to test quantum key distribution launched Aug. 16 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare. Credit: Zentrum Fur Telematik Credit: Center for Telematics, Wurzburg Quantum Key ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

A new breakthrough in wireless technology could dramatically boost internet speeds while cutting energy use—by switching from radio waves to light. Researchers have developed a tiny chip packed with ...

Kyocera demonstrated a breakthrough in underwater wireless optical communication, achieving speeds of 5.2 Gbps using laser technology. This system is 2.5 times faster than conventional methods, ...