A new megahertz laser improves satellite and debris tracking, strengthening orbit predictions and space safety.

The U.S. Navy’s push to mount high‑energy laser weapons on surface ships is no longer a distant concept but a contract‑backed ...

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 ...

A decades-old government system to monitor unauthorized aircraft over the U.S. capital region is about to get an AI overhaul to speed up operations. Teleidoscope, a company out of California that ...

Perhaps optical tracking, LiDAR and laser targeting systems have evolved considerably since then. The team promoting the Photon Matrix product claims it incorporates "mandatory safety certification ...

28 times per second, engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center fire a laser that travels about 250,000 miles to hit the minivan-sized Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft moving at ...

General Atomics and Boeing have won a US Army contract to prototype their most powerful distributed-gain laser weapon to date: a groundbreaking 300-kW, solid-state, target-tracking beast that could ...