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  "description": "Beyond NASA, Starlink satellites are using optical inter-satellite links to transmit data via infrared laser beams",
  "path": "/the-internet-is-leaving-earth/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T01:00:40.000Z",
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    "NASA’s Artemis missions",
    "SpaceX technical materials",
    "Learn more about the Broadband Community...",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, April 19, 2026 – Satellites are beginning to communicate with each other using lasers instead of radio waves, a shift already underway in low-Earth orbit and on NASA’s Artemis II mission. The technology could begin to reshape how global networks are built in space.\n\nFor more than half a century, space communications have relied on radio frequencies. When Apollo astronauts first spoke from the Moon, their voices traveled over S-band frequencies, a system that remains in use today aboard NASA’s Artemis missions. But as data demands surge and satellite networks expand at an incredible speed, that legacy architecture is beginning to show its limits.\n\nIn low-Earth orbit, SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are using optical inter-satellite links to transmit data via infrared laser beams, allowing signals to travel directly between satellites instead of routing through ground stations, according to SpaceX technical materials and industry reporting on the system’s laser interlink architecture.\n\nLearn more about the Broadband Community...\n\n\n                            Start Your Broadband Journey Here\n                        \n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "The Internet Is Leaving Earth",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-21T09:50:46.559Z"
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