Laser Communications Emerge On Inflight Connectivity Horizon

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WASHINGTON—With companies increasingly demonstrating the use of lasers to provide connectivity links between satellites and aircraft, the technology is starting to emerge as a potential candidate for airline use. Optical links represent “the next, next generation” of what an in-flight connectivity...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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