At a moment when solar farms are being built faster than grids can absorb their daytime peaks, a California startup is ...

The U.S. Space Force aims to better pinpoint the location of Earth's true center using lasers on GPS satellites slated to launch in 2025. A set of laser retroreflector arrays, or LRAs, will be ...

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The stealthy startup plans to use a network of satellites to harvest sunlight and send it to Earth using infrared lasers.

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has helped to establish that femtosecond comb lasers can provide accurate measurement of absolute distance in formation flying space missions. NPL, along with ...

Assuming Google does manage to launch a prototype in 2027, will it simply be a high-stakes technical experiment – or the ...

NASA is experimenting with Invisible beams of light to transmit data to Earth, which can pack 10 to 100 times more information than radio waves. Reading time 4 minutes In December 2023, a tiny, ...

Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day. The vast distances involved will throttle data rates to a trickle. You’re lucky if a spacecraft can send more than a few ...

A German satellite transmitted a laser signal to a ground station mounted on a Jeep in a breakthrough test that could significantly alter space-to-Earth communication, speeding it up and avoiding data ...

Nato is deploying “unjammable” laser systems to defend top-secret military communications from hybrid warfare attacks by ...

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Jules Verne is often praised as the writer who put the “science” into science fiction, capturing the imagination of an entire generation with his novel From the Earth to the Moon, published in 1865.