Say It With Space Lasers: Optical Comsats For Major War
Nine years after the Pentagon tried and failed to build laser communications satellites, can the private sector get it done?
Nine years after the Pentagon tried and failed to build laser communications satellites, can the private sector get it done?
PENTAGON: Live by the radio, die by the radio — unless, maybe, you switch to lasers, which are much harder to detect and interfere with. That’s why the Defense Department recently awarded a three-year, $45 million grant to a tri-service project for a laser communications system. “This is basically fiber optic communications without the fiber,” […]