Perth, Australia (SPX) Jun 30, 2023
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The $6.5 million project, which has received a $4.4 million grant from the Australian Space Agency, $500,000 each from the Western Australian Government and The University of Western Australia, will employ a new technology that uses super-fast lasers to talk to satellites and spacecraft.
It's called 'free-space optical communications', and it's 1000 times faster than the radio communicatio