XCOM – Spaceflight Now

February 27, 2020

Breaking News

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[ February 20, 2020 ] Soyuz rocket launches Russian military satellite after one-month delay Mission Reports
[ February 19, 2020 ] China launches four ‘technology experiment satellites’ Mission Reports

X-ray communications experiment delivered to space station

May 10, 2019

A novel communications experiment developed by NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory has arrived at the International Space Station to prove data can be transmitted in space using X-ray signals, a breakthrough that could have uses in deep space exploration and military technology on Earth.

Q&A with Keith Gendreau, principal investigator of the first X-ray space communications experiment (members only)

May 7, 2019

Keith Gendreau, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, recently spoke with Spaceflight Now about a new experiment on the International Space Station to demonstrate X-ray communications in space for the first time.