Tag: optical communication

Flawless Photonics Inc., a privately held seed-funded company that has built a team of materials, photonics, robotics and space experts, has announced that their ZBLAN SpaceFiberTM manufactured on the International Space Station has been returned to Earth. “Flawless Photonics was...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) has recently announced its solicitation for 100 satellites for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The SDA is seeking industry proposals for 100 "Alpha" satellites that will be part of the Tranche 2 Transport...

Aalyria, a Google spinoff focused on connectivity, has secured a new contract from the Office of Naval Research and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to develop over-the-horizon connectivity for the Navy's sea, air, and land assets. The initial contract award...

Raytheon Technologies has announced a deal with Mynaric to supply optical communication terminals for the Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program. The deal will see Mynaric provide Raytheon with three Condor Mk3 terminals for each of...

Mynaric, a leading provider of industrialized, cost-effective and scalable laser communications products, announced it will provide Northrop Grumman with optical communications terminals for 14 satellites as part of the Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program. Each satellite...

Wireless laser communication systems developer Astrolight successfully performed a satellite-to-ground laser communication test using a portable OGS-1 optical ground station. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYCWZJBfv8&ab_channel=Astrolight Astrolight, working with the European Space Agency (ESA), established the laser communication link using the OGS-1 optical ground station, located near ESA's...

WARPSPACE signed a strategic consulting agreement with GXO, Inc. With this agreement, WARPSPACE will accelerate its entry into the U.S. market, the center of the space industry, aiming to become the global leader for optical inter-satellite link services. Mandy Vaughn,...

Voyager Space Inc. (Voyager), a space technology company with nearly 20 years of spaceflight heritage, and Space Micro, Inc., powered by Voyager and a provider of digital, electro-optic and communications systems for satellites, deep space exploration and other space...

MUNICH, February 1, 2022 – Mynaric has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to analyze, design, build and test on a laboratory model an end-to-end optical communication system that can achieve data transmission speeds of 1 Terabit per...

Voyager Space Inc. (Voyager), a global leader in space exploration today announced it has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in San Diego-based Space Micro. Voyager will provide strategic operations support to help advance Space Micro’s technology throughput to civil, commercial,...