As the Artemis II Orion spacecraft carries four astronauts on the first crewed lunar ...

The new system, known as the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications system, or O2O, will allow astronauts aboard Orion to ...

Draper Technologies was also crucial to the first moon landing, developing the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) and systems ...

Since the Apollo missions in the late 1960s, NASA has relied on radio frequencies to communicate with astronauts in space. The Artemis II mission is the first time astronauts will have a chance to use ...

When four astronauts fly around the Moon aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft on Artemis II, they are slated to carry a laser ...

Attached to the Orion spacecraft is a key piece of technology developed over decades in Lexington, Massachusetts.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — BlueHalo, the company transforming the future of global defense through mission-critical innovation in the space domain, today announced the successful ...

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, planned to launch on April 1, 2026, will test the powerful SLS rocket, Orion spacecraft, high-speed laser communications, manual rendezvous capabilities, and advanced ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

Scottish start-up and Fraunhofer UK prove real-world practicality of PCSEL technology, enabling secure, long distance, ...

The rapid growth of satellite constellations has placed unprecedented pressure on the infrastructure connecting spacecraft to Earth. In a recent interview, Laurynas Mačiulis, Chief Executive Officer ...