Technology in Support of National Security

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october2024

Lift-off for space lasers

In December 2023, a payload on the International Space Station (ISS) known as ILLUMA-T began exchanging modulated infrared laser beams with a geosynchronous satellite some 35,000 kilometers above it. The experiment was designed to show how data-in this case high-definition video and photos of pets-can be relayed to the ground at high rates and without delay from spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO).

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First communications user terminal demonstrated in two-way laser relay prepares for Moon flyby

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon's surface - a momentous engineering and science feat marked by his iconic words, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Three years later, Apollo 17 became NASA's final Apollo mission to land humans on the brightest and largest object in our night sky.

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Fifteen Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive R&D 100 Awards

The innovations map the ocean floor and the brain, prevent heat stroke and cognitive injury, expand AI processing and quantum system capabilities, and introduce new fabrication approaches.

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1973 ELF Submarine Communications Demonstration


At sites throughout the world, the Laboratory conducted a series of experiments with its extremely-low-frequency (ELF) communications system, demonstrating real-time reception of messages transmitted from the Navy’s Wisconsin Test Facility. The most telling demonstration of the ELF communications receiver was conducted while a nuclear submarine was in submerged transit from Italy to New London, CT, across the North Atlantic. The system successfully decoded messages transmitted at ELF from the Wisconsin Test Facility 6000 km distant from the submarine.



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