Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers

Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by spwa4 on Monday March 17, 2025 @03:31PM (#43391973)

I think you're too late. Pretty sure the military has line-of-sight free-space-optics to satellites since at least the second Iraq war.

One can only wonder how small the "receivers" (routers, really) have gotten by now.

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Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by rhubarbtree on Monday March 17, 2025 @05:46PM (#43393051)

Cubesats carry laser comms if that's what you mean.

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Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by echoangle on Monday March 17, 2025 @06:47PM (#43393521)

Those work in vacuum though so you need a bit less laser power. The atmosphere attenuates your signal if you’re doing ground to ground or ground to aircraft links so you probably need a bit more laser power. But I agree that that’s probably not the difficult thing about the whole system.

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