Tag: deep space optical communication

July 15, 2025 / Leila Wrschka

Europe’s first deep-space optical communication link

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located...

August 8, 2023 / NASA

NASA’s Deep Space Communications to Get a Laser Boost

The agency is testing technologies in space and on the ground that could increase bandwidth to transmit more complex science data and even stream video from Mars. Set to launch this fall, NASA’s...