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![A schematic showing optical ground terminals and satellites transmitting data via lasercom links across the Earth and to the Moon.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-05/Hollow-core%20fiber_1.jpg?itok=OTTfzbBV)
Guiding Light in Air-Filled Fibers for Long-Distance Lasercom
A new type of fiber could transmit the high-power light needed for future deep-space science and exploration missions.
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![a collage of images showing a satellite, a jet, a warship, and soldiers on the ground. In the middle of the collage is an illustration of a circuit board.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-11/High-Assurance%20Cryptography_v2_2.jpg?h=285cfac5&itok=NBi3a1pY)
High-Assurance Cryptography
Lincoln Laboratory is developing technologies to meet the highest standards for information security at the tactical edge.
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![An illustration of data being sent across a laser from a small satellite to a ground station on Earth.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2022-11/tbird_conops_public_notext.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=FFp50AcU)
TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD)
The laser communications payload has delivered terabytes of data from a satellite to Earth at record-breaking rates that will transform future science missions.
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![A rendition of a communications payload on its spacecraft host, with laser links over the Earth connecting Hawaii and California.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-06/LCRD%20schematic.png?itok=e8EDbJG0)
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration
Optical communications technologies decades in the making at Lincoln Laboratory were transferred to NASA for its first two-way laser relay communications system.
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![an illustration of satellite in space with Earth's blue surface in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-01/Cubesat.jpg?itok=6aMdT1qP)
Space Systems Cyber-Resiliency
We are researching and prototyping cyber-resilient space systems software that will enable critical national security space assets to withstand, operate through, and recover from cyberattack.
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![Haystack Ultrawideband Satellite Imaging Radar at night](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-10/442971-340D.jpg?itok=YuAlmyVc)
Haystack Ultrawideband Satellite Imaging Radar
Lincoln Laboratory created the world's highest-resolution radar for imaging of space objects in support of space situational awareness.
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![The SST awaits nightfall to be tasked with scanning space from its location atop the Atom Site, a high-altitude observation point in New Mexico that provides a view of the sky that is virtually untouched by light pollution.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/SST.jpg?h=f2221fcc&itok=9eKqQQYs)
Space Surveillance Telescope
A unique curved focal surface enables a highly sensitive telescope capable of surveying broad swaths of deep space to detect the faintest objects in the night sky.
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![TESS's cameras, which will monitor planets passing in front of stars, were designed and built by Lincoln Laboratory engineers. Illustration: Chester Beals](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/AR13_TESS_Earth2.png?h=e75ab034&itok=MzzwiO3a)
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
A new planet hunter will spend the next two years searching for exoplanets, including those that could support life.
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![The International Space Station will be outfitted with our ILLUMA-T laser terminal to provide optical communications.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/323070main_s119e009662_hires.jpg?h=3ced22da&itok=R0xQ3YVh)
![Space Tactics Interns learn the operations of the high-power Millstone Hill radar that tracks space vehicles and space debris.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/Millstone_501498-209D.jpg?h=6363fe9a&itok=y6Qxcn-1)
14th Air Force Detachment — Space Tactics Internship
A program created by the Air Force Space Command and Lincoln Laboratory gives participants experience with advanced systems and processes for managing space operations.
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