Bezos's Blue Origin announces plans to deploy thousands of satellites in 2027
Blue Origin plans to deploy 5,408 satellites starting late 2027 to build TeraWave, a 6 Tbps optical communications constellation serving data centers, governments, and businesses.
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications demo goes dark
Laser-based deep-space communications achieved multi-hundred Mbps at close range and sustained multi-megabit downlinks at 386 million km, greatly exceeding traditional radio bandwidth.