A spacecraft that never runs out of fuel sounds like science fiction, but a team at Texas A&M University has taken a small, literal step toward that goal. In experiments conducted at the university’s ...

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 ...

An experiment on board a parabolic flight showed promising results suggesting that graphene, a thin sheet of carbon atoms, could be used to steer solar sails and adjust the position of satellites in ...

Transcelestial has developed space-to-ground optical communications terminals for spacecraft, such as this one for the 6GStarLab spacecraft. Credit: Transcelestial WASHINGTON — Transcelestial, a ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force plans to use satellites built by K2 Space to test a critical but unresolved piece of future missile-defense systems: how to move large volumes of data quickly between ...

The laser is specifically a hydroxyl megamaser, meaning it is similar to a laser but is seen in microwave or radio wave radiation rather than in visible light. The prefix "hydroxyl" refers to the fact ...