Aerospace Corp.'s Flashlight Laser Crosslink Demonstration payloads were built primarily with commercial-off-the-shelf parts and a custom-built laser-communications terminal. Credit: Aerospace Corp.

SALT LAKE CITY – Aerospace Corp. is refining technology to enable cubesats to share data through optical links, after demonstrating the capability early this year. Such a move would allow communication at greater distances and to work more autonomously.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...