NASA is building optical communications technologies into its networks, using infrared laser links to offer missions higher data rates than comparable radio frequency systems. NASA’s Low-Cost Optical ...

Hawthorne, CA (March 29, 2010) – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces the successful activation of its new Dragon spacecraft communication hardware aboard the International Space Station ...

Exail, the France-based technology company, is leading a new European-funded project hoping to develop ready-to-deploy quantum key distribution (QKD) systems for ultra-secure optical communications.

The communications hardware that will allow International Space Station (ISS) crewmembers to monitor and command SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft has been activated aboard the orbital outpost. Space shuttle ...