Projects
Tagged As
![A schematic showing optical ground terminals and satellites transmitting data via lasercom links across the Earth and to the Moon.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-05/Hollow-core%20fiber_1.jpg?itok=subVAkRi)
Guiding Light in Air-Filled Fibers for Long-Distance Lasercom
A new type of fiber could transmit the high-power light needed for future deep-space science and exploration missions.
Tags
![An illustration of data being sent across a laser from a small satellite to a ground station on Earth.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2022-11/tbird_conops_public_notext.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=qp_Ti0vK)
TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD)
The laser communications payload has delivered terabytes of data from a satellite to Earth at record-breaking rates that will transform future science missions.
Tags
![A rendition of a communications payload on its spacecraft host, with laser links over the Earth connecting Hawaii and California.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-06/LCRD%20schematic.png?itok=tMRpTWBR)
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration
Optical communications technologies decades in the making at Lincoln Laboratory were transferred to NASA for its first two-way laser relay communications system.
Tags