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The words Civil Space written in the middle of a dark image of the Earth and Moon in space.
Lab Happenings

Laboratory hosts second annual Civil Space Tech Expo

October 14, 2025
A zoomed-in optical image of multiple integrated circuits.
Awards

Lincoln Laboratory technologies win seven R&D 100 Awards for 2025

September 4, 2025
The exterior main entrance of MIT Lincoln Laboratory is shown with a radar antenna in the background.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a workhorse for national security

April 11, 2025
A simulated image of a black hole's photon ring.

TBIRD technology could help image black holes' photon rings

November 6, 2024
At Kennedy Space Center, Laboratory staff members Justin Dunbeck (left) and Steven Constantine unpack and examine the Optical Communications System payload for NASA's Artemis II mission to the Moon. Photo: NASA/Glenn Benson.

First communications user terminal demonstrated in two-way laser relay prepares for Moon flyby

October 18, 2024
A payload shown above the Gulf of California, just after it was jettisoned by a robotic arm from the International Space Station into orbit.
In the Media

Lift-off for space lasers

October 1, 2024
Optics & Photonics News
An artist's rendition of a satellite carrying a laser communications payload above the Earth in low Earth orbit.
In the Media

NASA’s record-breaking laser demo completes mission

September 25, 2024
NASA
Two people talk at a poster presentation session.

Lincoln Laboratory hosts 14th annual Communications Workshop

August 19, 2024
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launched in October 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Deep-space camera sends farthest optical communications link yet

June 17, 2024
A collage of pet photos — including cats, dogs, birds, and rabbits — overlaid on Earth with laser links between Earth and a communications terminal on the International Space Station.
In the Media

NASA's laser relay system sends pet imagery to, from Space Station

June 10, 2024
NASA
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