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Spectators on a platform watch as the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System-Hosted Payload lifts off in the distance over a forest.

Newly launched Space Force optical sensing system will improve space domain awareness in collaboration with Japan

May 8, 2025
Two CubeSats (roughly 20 x 10 x 30 cm in size) are shown in a lab setting
Awards

Lincoln Laboratory honored for technology transfer of hurricane-tracking satellites

March 20, 2025
A rocket launches.

Lincoln Laboratory supports Missile Defense Agency space sensor testing

December 11, 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
GOES-19, the last of four giants, rolls toward its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center earlier this month.BEN SMEGELSKY/NASA
In the Media

Small, nimble weather satellites could track the atmosphere moment by moment, boosting forecasts

June 25, 2024
Science
Engineers inspect LES-1 prior to its 1965 launch. The satellite is positioned atop a Titan III rocket on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy, Florida.

A satellite signals after 45 years of radio silence

June 12, 2024
three people talking around a high top table at a poster session

Workshop explores cyber technology for national security

December 14, 2023
A schematic of a laser communications terminal onboard the International Space Station transmitting data over laser signals to a smaller satellite at a higher altitude; this satellite then relays the data to Earth.

ILLUMA-T launches to the International Space Station

November 9, 2023
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