In 2024, seven vehicles in western China each transmitted a high-powered microwave beam that converged precisely in both time ...

In a major development, satellite imagery analysis has revealed that China is developing a laser fusion research facility in ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

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A laser beam in outer space that sends orbiting debris to a fiery end in the Earth's atmosphere may soon be a reality. SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. said it is developing a satellite that can shoot ...

Israel’s experimental air-defense system known as the Iron Beam uses laser technology to strike down drones and rockets, but military analysts say the device needs U.S. support to improve its ...

Although laser communication in space is ... its own Starlink satellites with better laser transceivers, but to also make them available to third-party satellites, as well as beam the lasers ...

The idea of space-based weapons has been orbiting ... These panels convert solar power into laser or microwave and later beam down the power to Earth via satellites. Power receiving stations ...

News moves fast, and there's not always time to untangle the complex forces driving the day's biggest stories. WSJ Explains breaks down big market moves, business and economic trends, and ...

Scientists uncover the secret to building Star Wars-style laser weapons ... solar laser built on a space station could power that station or send power to a nearby satellite, or even to ...

The race to establish satellite ... laser beam alignment. In the last few years, the company made rapid progress in developing high-speed laser communication technologies — both for space ...