Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The international space station shoots a laser toward a satellite, which is relaying it back down to earth. Early next month, ...
Over a month ago, Japan’s HTV3 cargo carrier launched atop a Japanese H-II rocket delivering an innovative software-defined radio experiment to the International Space Station (ISS). This new ISS ...
China’s latest space communications experiment has reset expectations for what a “low power” link from orbit can do, with a 2 watt laser pushing data at gigabit speeds from geostationary distance and ...
WASHINGTON — Global communications company Viasat announced Feb. 29 it has signed an agreement with defense prime contractor Northrop Grumman to support an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) ...
The Space Force launched its X-37B spaceplane late Thursday for its eighth experimental mission. The spacecraft flew from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. While many ...
Early next month, SpaceX will send a clutch of science experiments to the space station investigating a range of topics, from high-speed laser communications to rolling atmospheric waves on Earth. A ...