UK Military getting into the Lasers in space game!

Britain is testing new high-speed infra-red laser based optical satellite links for its armed forces. The ground station, developed by UK firm Archangel Lightworks, is ~ a meter tall and 0.7 m in diameter and can transmit and receive data at up to 10 Gbps, and could in future scale to terabit-per-second (Tbps). https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/05/27/uk-armed-forces-aims-for-secure-comms-via-optical-satellite-links/5246994

The U.S. Space Force is actively deploying its all Optical Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) — a large, resilient, Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) mesh network of hundreds of satellites to provide low-latency communication and surveillance. See this post for more: https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/us-space-forces-laser-mesh-network #Space #Satellites #OpticalNetworking #Lasers #Archangel #Britain #BritishMilitary #Communications #Security #TerraM #InfraRed #UK