A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International Space Station and back. "Laser communications use infrared light to transmit 10 to 100 times ...

NASA is speeding up communications in space with experiments aboard the International Space Station, Orion spacecraft and more. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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SCIENTISTS have unveiled several options to stop 2024 YR4, an asteroid the size of a football pitch from smashing into Earth.

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"As NASA has has proven ... some satellites up in space to see what the debris effect might be and they're working with different type of propulsion systems and laser systems to try to get ...

New Chairman of Congressional subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Mike Haridopolos says it would be great to see NASA ...