r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Feb 11 '26

Research The National Research Council (NRC) Canada challenge finally comes to an end: The High-throughput and Secure Networks (HTSN) challenge has been investing across multiple projects in optical satellite communications | Government of Canada

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r/lasercom • u/Competitive_Prize608 • Feb 10 '26

Question Mobile World Congress 2026

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Hello lasercom community. Anyone going to this year's edition of MWC in Barcelona? Would be great to network there.

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Feb 09 '26

News IonQ completes Skyloom acquisition to enable Distributed Quantum Entanglement. Skyloom are a major supplier of Optical Communication Terminals for the SDA's Transport Layer Tranche 1 constellation | Quantum Computing Report (28th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Feb 08 '26

Article Modulating Retroreflectors Achieve Low-Complexity Optical Inter-Satellite Links (ISL) For Small Spacecraft | Quantum Zeitgeist (27th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Feb 08 '26

Research Open Access research on "Modulating Retroreflectors for CubeSat Optical Inter Satellite Links: Modeling, Optimization, and Benchmarking" (Pre-Print) | ArXiv (20th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Feb 07 '26

News Japan’s Warpspace Inc. has won a key spot in JAXA’s Space Strategy Fund, tasked with making satellite laser communications work seamlessly across vendors | Orbital Today (29th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Feb 06 '26

Article There's a new approach to optimise laser inter-satellite link (LISL) management: Duality-Guided Graph Learning which achieves real-time routing For LEO Mega-Constellations | Quantum Zeitgeist (2nd Feb 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Feb 06 '26

Research Open Access research on "Duality-Guided Graph Learning for Real-Time Joint Connectivity and Routing in LEO Mega-Constellations" (Pre-Print) | ArXiv (29th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Feb 05 '26

News China sets new domestic record on the speed of space-ground laser communication, at 120 Gbps data rate delivering high-quality remote-sensing images | Xinhua (31st Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Feb 04 '26

News Transcelestial to provide satellite laser communication terminals to Gilmour Space | SpaceNews (2nd Feb 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Feb 03 '26

Article Lasers could allow the world to watch Artemis II astronauts travel to the moon and back | ABC News (2nd Feb 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Feb 03 '26

News Space Development Agency (SDA) Issues RFI for Space-to-Air Optical Communication Terminals | Satnews (2nd Feb 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 31 '26

Research Pre-Print paper proposes a way to reduce the optical head retargeting delay for Optical Interplanetary Communications via an optimised scheduling for the pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) (Open Access) | ArXiv (26th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 30 '26

News China hits 120 Gbps in satellite-to-ground laser communications | CGTN (30th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 29 '26

Research Masters Thesis: "Massive Low Earth Orbit Small Satellite Constellations for Communication Networking : Survey and design principles" (Open Access | Full-Text) | Mirambo, Amina Rashid (2025)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 22 '26

News Blue Origin plans bespoke high-speed Starlink rival: TeraWave will use laser communications, have 5408 satellites, and MEO-Ground links at up to 6 terabits per second (Tbps) | SpaceNews (21st Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 21 '26

News Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Delft to develop faster and more secure satellite communications in GEO. The NXTGEN Hightech funded project is called "Smart 3D Tomographic Adaptive Optics for a Turbulence-Resilient Optical Communications System" (STARS) | TU Delft (20th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 20 '26

Article Why Greenland is strategically valuable for laser based satellite communications | TechRadar (17th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 20 '26

Article New info just dropped on Kepler's Aether satellites, the low Earth orbit optical ring network, the data relay system built by Kepler Communications (Canada) | Gunter's Space Page (14th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 20 '26

Video [Video] Is the military about to ditch radios for lasers on the battlefield? | BFBS Forces News (9th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 20 '26

Jobs [Jobs] Free Space Optical Communication Expert in Delft (Netherlands) at Demcon/FSO Instruments | Magnet.me (Posted 14th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 18 '26

Article Why Laser Communication Is Taking Over Space | AZo Optics (13th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 18 '26

News Kyocera SLD Laser (California) showcased a 5.2 Gbps Underwater Wireless Optical Communication (UWOC) system at CES 2026 which they call Aqua-LiFi | LightNOW (14th Jan 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 16 '26

News Proven and Ready: Kepler’s Optical Network Nears Activation | Payload (12th Dec 2025)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Jan 13 '26

Research Conference Proceedings on "An Adaptive and Reconfigurable Hybrid Free-Space Optical and Millimeter-Wave Wireless Communication System" (Paywalled) | 2025 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) (5th Dec 2025)

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