NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission shows space-to-Earth laser comms can scale

NASA's Artemis II mission used new laser communications systems to beam images back to Earth, with a low-cost terminal built by Observable Space and Quantum Opus successfully receiving data from the Orion spacecraft at a rate of 260 megabits per second. The terminal, operated by the Australian National University, cost less than $5 million, compared to more expensive solutions