en.Wedoany.com Reported - Global satellite optical communications company MBRYONICS today announced the launch of STARLIGHT, the world's first bidirectional coherent optical transceiver for ultra-high-speed space links, covering rates from 25G to 800G. Designed from scratch for the space environment, the product uses dual lasers to independently operate transmit and receive wavelengths, enabling ultra-high-speed free-space optical links.
This launch coincides with MBRYONICS hosting the annual general meeting of the pan-European STARLight Alliance from June 9 to 10. The STARLight project brings together industrial and academic partners to advance silicon photonics (SiPho) technology, developing application-driven solutions for data centers, AI clusters, telecommunications, and automotive sectors. As a member of the STARLight project, MBRYONICS has received €110 million (approximately $127 million) in funding from the EU Chips Joint Undertaking.
As the space economy evolves from standalone satellites to data-intensive mesh networks, traditional radio frequency links create severe bottlenecks in data rates and transmission speeds. The STARLIGHT transceiver breaks through this bottleneck with 800G optical channels, enabling direct-to-device satellite networks (low Earth orbit satellites broadcasting cellular signals directly to unmodified smartphones), orbital data centers (processing petabytes of data in real time using solar power), edge cloud computing (providing low-latency, high-capacity aerial fiber), and universal integration (bridging terrestrial fiber networks with multi-orbit non-terrestrial networks).
MBRYONICS CEO John Mackey stated that hosting the STARLight Alliance demonstrates the company's growing role in the new space community, and that the STARLIGHT coherent transceiver is a key component of satellite optical communications platforms, providing global infrastructure for direct-to-device, cloud, and AI services. The company offers end-to-end optical communications platforms connecting LEO, MEO, and GEO satellite networks and ground stations, building a network of networks. Its 25-800G transceiver platform is the only solution compatible with all major optical communication standards, delivering maximum throughput and enabling true Earth-Moon connectivity. The company is headquartered in Galway, Ireland, and San Francisco, California, USA.
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