A ground-based laser tracking system that could help to stem the accumulation of space debris is being developed in the UK. Devised by start-up company Lumi Space with the support of ESA and the UK ...

Astrolight CEO Laurynas Mačiulis explains how laser satellite communication could ease spectrum congestion, increase data capacity, and raise new engineering and policy questions for space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Virginia-based company has delivered two high-energy laser system units to the U.S. Army. Developed by AeroVironment, the 20kW ...

In an achievement never seen before, China has managed to do something that scientists across the world have been trying to solve for decades—send a laser beam all the way to the Moon and receive a ...

Combining a database with over 1.5 billion shots, GPS and an ultra-accurate laser, the Arccos Smart Laser goes far beyond distance and slope.

General Atomics and Boeing have won a US Army contract to prototype their most powerful distributed-gain laser weapon to date: a groundbreaking 300-kW, solid-state, target-tracking beast that could ...