The Pentagon is basing its future space-based architecture on optical communications technology.
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Today’s satellites collect more data than can be efficiently transmitted via traditional radio-frequency methods. As governments and companies build constellations with hundreds or even thousands of spacecraft, the use of optical communications technology using laser links is proliferating just as...
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