Rapid Relay

Credit: U.S. Marine Corps
Satellite-based lasers for free space transmission would increase the speed of data transfer. Military benefits are mobility and a faster Internet. Rainer Martini, associate professor of physics at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J., says with a stable optical system, satellites could...

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