Can Blue Origin help replace the International Space Station?

Getting NASA Data to the Ground With Lasers. NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will launch and showcase laser communications – a revolutionary way of communicating data from space to the ground. Laser communications can provide increased data transfer rates than radio.

A once-quiet battle to replace the space station suddenly is red hot

US, China, Russia Test New Space War Tactics: Sats Buzzing, Spoofing, Spying. A rare glimpse into nation-on-nation run-ins in space, as satellites follow, flee and, allegedly, listen in on each other.