Seattle-area startup says its technology could be used for orbital tracking and communication as well as for beamed power.

At present, tracking data for planetary missions largely consists of radio observables: range-rate range and angular position. Future planetary missions may use Interplanetary Laser Ranging (ILR) as a ...

A ground-based laser tracking system that could help to stem the accumulation of space debris is being developed in the UK. Devised by start-up company Lumi Space with the support of ESA and the UK ...

PITTSBURGH, May 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in advanced laser processing solutions, today introduced HIGHtactile, a new laser welding head with tactile ...

In an achievement never seen before, China has managed to do something that scientists across the world have been trying to solve for decades—send a laser beam all the way to the Moon and receive a ...

WASHINGTON — Mynaric will supply laser communications terminals for seven military satellites made by Raytheon Technologies, the company announced June 21. The optical communications terminals are for ...

In a few picoseconds (trillionths of a second), a small, thin piece of copper momentarily becomes dense plasma, specifically a state called warm dense matter, warm being a relative term—the metal is ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a collection of items that ...

Researchers at Cornell University have devised a new single-molecule microscopy method for studying polymers as they grow (Nat Chem. 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-023-01363-2). “We see every monomer,” says ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Logitech Inc. was set Wednesday to introduce a new mouse that uses a laser beam to track the movements of the device. The mouse, which Logitech claims will be the first such ...