Laser communication in space

NASA robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon

The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE; ) was a NASA lunar exploration and technology demonstration mission. It was launched on a Minotaur V rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on September 7, 2013. During its seven-month mission, LADEE orbited the Moon's equator, using its instruments to study the lunar exosphere and dust in the Moon's vicinity. Instruments included a dust detector, neutral mass spectrometer, and ultraviolet-visible spectrometer, as well as a technology demonstration consisting of a laser communications terminal. The mission ended on April 18, 2

NASA spacecraft en route to metallic asteroid 16 Psyche

communication using light sent through free space

network of communication satellites and ground stations

cancelled Mars mission that was originally intended to launch in 2009 and would have established an Interplanetary Internet between Earth and Mars

proposed NASA Mars communications satellite

thumb|3D printed lens holder of KORUZA Scientific variant

former experimental spacecraft communication instrument on the International Space Station

communication using lasers in outer space