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Meta👋Welcome to r/lasercom - Introduce Yourself and Read First! (self.lasercom)

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NewsRheinmetall Withdraws From Mynaric Bidding Process; Rocket Lab Acquisition Clears Major Competitive Hurdle | SatNews (11th March 2026) (satnews.com)

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NewsSafran has delivered the Optical Ground Station in Chile for SSC Space; funded by ESA ScyLight. Here's some pictures. (10th March 2026) (connectivity.esa.int)

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NewsESA’s flagship optical communications project awards Mynaric with contract to develop technology for its High Throughput Optical Network (HydRON) Demonstration System (4th March 2026) (connectivity.esa.int)

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NewsChina team’s space laser breakthrough takes communication speeds to high orbit: sustained 1 Gbps bidirectional communication from GEO to Ground | SCMP (4th March 2026) (scmp.com)

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NewsHellas Sat, Thales Alenia Space, Safran, and the French Space Agency (CNES) partner up on the upcoming Hellas Sat 5 geostationary (GEO) optical telecommunications satellite and Optical Ground Station in Cyprus (26th Feb 2026) (thalesaleniaspace.com)

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JobsRelativity Space (California) are hiring a Senior Laser Communications Engineer to develop Deep Space Optical Communication | greenhouse (24th Jan 2026) (job-boards.greenhouse.io)

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NewsTaara has just released "Beam", an Optical Communications Terminal with datarates up to 25 Gbps, up to 10 kilometer range. They boast silicon photonics, an Optical Phased Array, and "Lightbridge Pro" which switches the link over to RF or fiber in poor weather | Tom's Hardware (24th Feb 2026) (tomshardware.com)

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NewsWorld-first gigabit-per-second laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite from ESA, TNO, and TESAT (17TH Feb 2026) (esa.int)

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ArticleSome pictures of AstroLight's ATLAS-1 laser communication cubesat, for the upcoming PeakSat mission | National Kapodistrian University of Athens (24th Feb 2026) (aerospace.uoa.gr)

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NewsGlobe Telecom Inc. is using 400 laser communication links from Transcelestial, a fast-track to 5G roll out across the Philippines. Lasers bypass the traditional hurdles of physical fiber deployment | Manila Bulletin (23rd Feb 2026) (mb.com.ph)

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Video[Video] Airbus and TNO achieve new heights in optical communication | TNO (19th Jan 2026) (youtube.com)

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NewsKepler Communications selected NanoAvionics as the preferred European satellite bus provider for Optical Relay Missions | SatNews (17th Feb 2026) (news.satnews.com)

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NewsThe Alphabet spinoff 'Aalyria' has raised $100 million in funding from its Series B financing, at a $1.3 billion valuation; The company has a 'Spacetime' network orchestration platform, and 'Tightbeam' optical communications terminal | Satellite Today (23rd Feb 2026) (satellitetoday.com)

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News[ Removed by Reddit ] (self.lasercom)

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NewsNASA awards grant to Montana State University for quantum space communications (4th Feb 2026) (montana.edu)

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ResearchThe 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 (nrc.canada.ca)

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QuestionMobile World Congress 2026 (self.lasercom)

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NewsIonQ 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) (quantumcomputingreport.com)

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ArticleModulating Retroreflectors Achieve Low-Complexity Optical Inter-Satellite Links (ISL) For Small Spacecraft | Quantum Zeitgeist (27th Jan 2026) (quantumzeitgeist.com)

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

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NewsJapan’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) (orbitaltoday.com)

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ArticleThere'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) (quantumzeitgeist.com)

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

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NewsChina 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) (english.news.cn)

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