🛰️ Japan made the world's first two-way laser link between satellites in 2005. Starlink scaled it up.
Now NEC plans hundreds of laser-linked satellites. Not to catch Starlink's ~11,000, but so Japan won't have to rely on it.

🛰️ Japan made the world's first two-way laser link between satellites in 2005. Starlink scaled it up.
Now NEC plans hundreds of laser-linked satellites. Not to catch Starlink's ~11,000, but so Japan won't have to rely on it.