The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory launched the Space Wireless Energy Laser Link—or SWELL—late Tuesday to demonstrate laser power beaming in space as part of a scheduled Defense Department ...

WASHINGTON — An experimental military project that will test laser beaming technology has arrived at the International Space Station and will spend a year in orbit, Navy officials said.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is set to launch the Space Wireless Energy Laser Link (SWELL) to demonstrate laser power beaming in space as part of the scheduled U.S. Department of Defense ...

In 2014, the US Navy installed its first prototype SSL (solid state laser) capable of countering surface craft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on a Navy ship. The Navy since then has been ...

The Navy is now rapidly developing and testing several promising ship-fired laser technologies, and warships are being built and adapted to accommodate the space, weight, and power requirements ...

The U.S. Space Force aims to better pinpoint the location of Earth’s center using lasers on GPS satellites slated to launch in 2025.

Goddard’s organization, charged with safeguarding the Navy’s classified and unclassified infrastructure from the seabed to geosynchronous orbit, “sees anywhere from 8.4 to 8.6 billion events ...

The seemingly space-age weapon is set to appear on Royal Navy vessels from 2027 — five years ahead of its originally planned debut. The British Ministry of Defence has apparently shifted the ...

The U.S. Space Force aims to better pinpoint the location of Earth's true center using lasers on GPS satellites slated to launch in 2025. A set of laser retroreflector arrays, or LRAs, will be ...

The U.S. Space Force aims to better pinpoint the location of Earth’s center using lasers on GPS satellites slated to launch in 2025.