Laser communications is a bedrock requirement for AI, space data centers and other exploration in deep space. Same way you cannot run datacenters on ground on 5G! Transcelestial @trans_celestial is a single stack platform enabling ISL, Space to Ground and Cloud-connected global network of Optical Ground Stations to connect Earth with Space

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At @NYSE talked today about space lasers, space data centers, undersea cables, national security issues, cell towers connectivity Video soon @trans_celestial is building the Fastest Network in Space and we want to give lasercomms to every single satellite, tower, data Centers, campuses, drones, ships and whoever needs high speed non jammable comms

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🫡The Unbroken Line: Why Lasercomms is the Last Line of Defence for Modern Networks Let’s talk about how modern wars are actually won. If you read defense headlines, you’d think the future is all about autonomous killer drone swarms, hypersonic strike missiles, and stealth destroyers. 🇺🇸 The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) just published a 24-page blueprint that offers a comprehensive look at what it takes. It’s called the National Security Science and Technology Strategy (NSSTS). 📃Read Full Report here whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up… And it is one of the most refreshing, clear-headed, and brutally honest strategy documents Washington has produced in the last few months related to technology strategy. The core thesis is simple: You don’t win modern conflicts with isolated, bespoke wonder-weapons. You win with resilient, mass-manufactured technological systems that create deterrence by denial. ~~~~~~~~~~ 🏛️The report lays out four interlocking pillars: - Pillar 1: Focusing Techno-Strategic Competition — Clear dominance across Undersea, Space (VLEO to cislunar), AI/autonomy, and C5ISR. - Pillar 2: Building Technological Resilience — Deterrence by denial, homeshoring critical supply chains, and locking adversaries out of critical networks. - Pillar 3: Accelerating Innovation Velocity — Slashing red tape via Executive Order 14265, milestone-based fixed-cost contracts, and commercial speed. - Pillar 4: Protecting National Security S&T — Protecting research via NSPM-33 and Technology Prosperity Deals with NATO and allied partners. Flip to Appendix A — the updated Critical and Emerging Technologies (CET) list. Communications and Networking is clearly pointed out and discussed. 🇺🇸The White House calls out the exact technical capabilities required: “optical links and fiber technologies” “resilient and path-diverse communications” “delay-tolerant and infrastructure-independent networking" “adaptive waveforms" “space and stratospheric modalities" The authors of this strategy understood a fundamental truth: 🤔 The smartest AI on Earth is completely useless if it cannot communicate. ~~~~~~~~~~ 🧠The Anatomy of Modern Combat: The Nervous System Problem Think of a modern military force like a biological organism. - The sensors (satellites, radars, reconnaissance drones) are the eyes. - The AI edge processors and commanders are the brain. - The strike platforms (drones, ships, missiles) are the muscles. What connects them all? The nervous system. In military doctrine, that’s C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance). Now here is the problem. For 100 years, that nervous system has run on Radio Frequency (RF) waves. And in a contested high-intensity conflict, legacy RF hits three walls: - Radios Scream Your Position: RF waves expand in all directions. When a forward unit or warship broadcasts a radio signal, adversary Direction Finding (DF) sensors detect the emission instantly. You talk, you get located, you get targeted. - Jamming Is Saturated: Electronic Warfare (EW) isn’t theoretical anymore. In Ukraine and the Pacific, GPS signals and tactical radio frequencies are actively jammed and degraded around the clock. - The Bandwidth Chokepoint: A single modern Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) drone generates gigabits of raw data every second. RF spectrum is physically crowded and regulated. You cannot push 10 Gbps tactical pipes through legacy radio frequencies without massive dishes. The White House recognized this bottleneck. That’s why the NSSTS explicitly elevates optical links, infrastructure independence, and path diversity. ~~~~~~~~~~ 💥How Lasers Change the Physics of the Battlefield Laser communications (Free Space Optics / FSO) replaces radio waves with directed light. Light moves at 300,000 km/s. But instead of expanding outward into a detectable bubble, photons travel in a razor-thin, coherent pencil beam. Here is how that unlocks the four key domains highlighted in the strategy: - Terrestrial Borders & Tactical Forward Bases: Trenching physical fiber across contested borders, mountains, or island chains takes years and is physically vulnerable to cable cuts. Microwave links scream electronic signatures to enemy sensors. Zero-RF Gigabit Transport: Point-to-point wireless laser links deliver 10G to 40G throughput across 15+ kilometers in minutes with zero electronic signature (LPI/LPD). Completely invisible to enemy RF sniffing. - Maritime & Naval Task Forces: Under Pillar 1, the strategy focuses on undersea and surface maritime dominance. During Emission Control (EMCON), warships must maintain strict radio silence so adversary satellites can't track them. Silent Ship-to-Ship Cross-Links: Optical links allow destroyers, support vessels, and island outposts to exchange gigabits of uncompressed sensor data across open water without emitting a single detectable RF photon. - Space Superiority & Stratospheric Meshes: The strategy directly aligns with Executive Order 14369 (Ensuring American Space Superiority) and prioritizes “space and stratospheric modalities” across very low-Earth orbit (VLEO) and cislunar space. Unjammable Orbital Backbone: Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISL) and high-rate Optical Ground Stations (OGS) turn LEO constellations and high-altitude drones (HAPS) into an unjammable global space mesh that completely bypasses vulnerable undersea fiber cables. ~~~~~~~~~~ 🔥Transcelestial: Taking Lasercomms from Lab Experiment to Factory Scale When we founded Transcelestial, we saw where the world was heading. For decades, laser communications was treated like an exotic, fragile laboratory experiment. Something NASA built one-off for deep-space science probes. We took a completely different path: industrialize it, automate it, and mass-manufacture it. - CENTAURI & CENTAURI+: Telco-grade 10G to 40G wireless laser terminals deployed globally across Tier-1 carriers, mission-critical infrastructure, and enterprise networks. Engineered with sub-5ms active optomechanical tracking, FPGA-driven adaptive waveforms, Class 1M eye-safety, and quantum-safe L2/3 encryption. - LEGOLAS (Tactical Long-Range Link): This is one of our most anticipated upcoming products. Engineered specifically for sovereign border security and forward defense. Spans 15km+ with a massive +47 dB link budget. Our LightTune active scintillation engine and dynamic LDPC forward error correction punch through heavy tropical monsoon rains without dropping the link. Ultra-compact (<4 kg), rugged, and fits inside a standard tactical pack. - TMOGS & Space Flight Heritage: Our Transcelestial Mother of all Optical Ground Stations (operational in Singapore and Spain) and orbital space payloads (flight-validated on orbit aboard SpaceX Transporter-15 on our 6G Starlab mission) close the loop from low-Earth orbit directly to the tactical edge. ~~~~~~~~~~ 📜The Action Plan: How Can Agencies Execute the NSSTS Vision The White House NSSTS is the right doctrine. Pillar 3 explicitly directs the Department of War (DoW) and allied agencies to accelerate acquisition reform under Executive Order 14265. Now comes execution. To translate this blueprint into fielded operational capability, defense leaders across the U.S., NATO and US-allies must take three decisive actions: - Shift to a High-Rate Commercial Manufacturing Mentality: The era of artisanal defense contracting is over. Building 10 custom terminals a year at $1,000,000+ each will lose the next conflict. As the NSSTS notes, we must counter adversary mass with industrialized scale. Transcelestial manufactures optical terminals on automated commercial lines producing thousands of units annually, delivering telco-grade volume pricing ($30k–$45k per terminal). Manufacturing scale is deterrence. - Enforce Open, Multi-Vendor Architectures: Proprietary single-prime walled gardens are a national security hazard. The NSSTS specifically directs agencies to use “milestone-based fixed-cost contracting mechanisms, with multiple competing participants and performance-based down-select.” Defense buyers must mandate open, interoperable optical waveforms across space, air, and ground systems so allied militaries are never locked into a single vendor. - Leverage Allied Technology Prosperity Deals: Under Pillar 4 and Executive Order 14383 (America First Arms Transfer Strategy), allied defense ecosystems must rapidly integrate dual-use, field-proven commercial hardware. If a system is already pushing 10 Gbps across commercial telco towers in tropical typhoons, deploy it to forward tactical bases today. ~~~~~~~~~~ 🎯 The Bottom Line The White House’s August 2026 NSSTS got the fundamentals right. AI autonomy without unjammable communications is useless. Sensors without gigabit pipes are blind. Troops with radiating RF radios are targets. The strategy is published. The physics of optical/laser communications is proven. The manufacturing scale is ready. Now let’s deploy it.

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#lasercomms is key to @NASA Artemis II mission. tldr how is works: - O2O terminal on Artemis II reaches out to two optical ground stations: White Sands (New Mexico) and Houston (Texas). There is another one in Table Mountain (California). - Up to 260Mbps of connectivity allowing 4K streams at roughly up to 3ms RTT More on the terminal and background of how all this works: 1. news.mit.edu/2026/lincoln-la… 2. esc.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/Laser… 3. nasa.gov/directorates/somd/s… @trans_celestial celebrates the use of lasercomms for pathfinding missions like these. With our own fleet of Space Terminals in LEO and Optical Ground Stations in Singapore and Barcelona, we are ushering a new era of Large Scale adoption of this technology in Low Earth Orbit 💪 More on our programs here: transcelestial.space spectrum.ieee.org/satellite-…

@mabarinova95 from @FierceNetwork_ did a fantastic job here sharing updates from @trans_celestial! cc @lindahardesty Since Aug 2024 (last we talked with Fierce), we have delivered to the US 🇺🇸clients: - 1Tbps of New Internet Capacity - 150km of laser deployed - 100+ laser terminals - 100+ sites including cell sites, buildings This includes: - 🗼Leading telcos like @TMobile (cc @SriniGopalan @JohnSaw ), @ATT Federal and others - 🪖 Leading Defence/ @DeptofWar contractors - 💉Healthcare Companies e.g. @GuardantHealth, etc - 🎓Universities e.g. University of California Santa Cruz, University of Uruguay, etc - 🌐 ISPs e.g. leading ISP in Texas - 🇺🇸 Public Sector Utilities & US Government linked agencies fierce-network.com/broadband… #MWC2026 has been a fantastic this year with a lot of focus on next gen technologies - AI-assisted networks, 6G, NTN, D2D, LEO networks, etc. Makes me very very excited on how fast the telecom networks are evolving! Follow @trans_celestial or me to keep up to speed on what's happening in this area Sharing a few more photos below that didn't make it to the final article! 👇

🚀 The new @trans_celestial Space 2.0 webpage is live! 🌌. 🎉🎉 🌐 Visit here: transcelestial.space We are bringing big products and services to connect Earth with Deep Space with our All-Optical Network suite. 👇👇

2025: The Year of Inflection in Scale, Space, Defence and New Products! 🥳 In 2025, connectivity took a decisive step beyond the Earth’s surface. @trans_celestial's laser systems are finally helping bridge the gap between local and global/regional network routing. 🌏 This shift was never about space ambition for its own sake. It was about relieving pressure where it matters most: Preparing for the global growth of AI services being streamed, constrained infrastructure due to underinvestment in fiber and lasercomms by many telcos, and networks stretched to their limits, as a result. By using space-based optical links, Transcelestial adds a new way to improve internet speed, strength, and lower costs. When combined with our city-based solutions to deliver this through 5G or broadband channels, it brings a level of service and reliability that hasn’t been seen before, especially for the value it delivers. 💪Here’s a look back at the milestones, partnerships, and breakthroughs that defined Transcelestial in a year of relentless execution. #1 Last Mile to the Last Frontier - Becoming a Space-Faring Company 🚀 Transcelestial has officially gone vertical. We aren’t just looking at the stars; we are talking to them. - Orbit Achieved 🎯: We are now a space-faring company. The launch of our 6G Starlab mission aboard SpaceX Transporter-15 in November marked a historic milestone. We are actively demonstrating high-speed laser downlinks from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to our proprietary Optical Ground Stations. xitter.cf/jharohit/status/199626… - Inter-Satellite Mesh 🛰️: We deepened our collaboration with ST Engineering, advancing the development of laser terminals capable of connecting satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), effectively creating a fiber-optic network in the sky. This will be testing concepts of Space Data Centers, Routing Data using high speed lasers and other key goals. The launch is aimed for H2 2026. transcelestial.com/blog/sing… - Global Ground Station Network 🔭: In record time of less than 2 months, we commissioned proprietary Optical Ground Stations (TMOGS) in Singapore and Spain (both on schedule to be operational in Q1 26). These stations utilize advanced closed-loop tracking algorithms to lock onto LEO satellites moving at 7km/s, solving the “last mile problem” for space-to-ground data downlink. This is made possible through Transcelestial’s extensive operational and engineering expertise. - GPS-Denied Navigation 📴: In the defense sector, we successfully tested a new unique capability for Non-Jammable GPS service – laser-based navigation. This technology uses our laser terminals not just for communication, but for precise optical positioning, allowing Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) to navigate in GPS-jammed environments with higher resolution and accuracy than traditional precision GPS. linkedin.com/pulse/from-deep… ~~~~ #2 3x+ (200% Growth) in Our Terrestrial Telecom and Enterprise Order Book $$$ 2025 was the year our technology became the choice for telecommunications giants across the globe, expanding into new verticals and geographies. Today we are the default choice of Wireless Fiber Optics for 10+ Telcos globally across Asia and USA. - North American Expansion 🇺🇸: We signed a landmark multi-year Master Agreement (MA) with one of the largest Telcos in the USA, validating lasers as a choice of technology to bring reliability to 5G networks nationwide. Supporting this is our strong partnership with Wesco, now expanded with a multi-million dollar commitment to supply the Americas with industry-leading CENTAURI laser communications terminals. While focus in on the US, we have seen tremendous client interest in 5G backhaul and Mining connectivity in CALA (Central America, South America and Carribean) with initial pilots underway. - Connecting Asia 🐉: Our partnership with @enjoyGLOBE (Philippines) continued to grow and led to a massive commitment for multi-year supply for CENTAURI laser comms. Read More Here on Philippines. Supporting this is our strong Philippines partner Asticom who signed a large milti-million dollar commitment to ensure timely production flow. Across the seas in India, we finished early production tests with BSNL and another one of the largest telcos in the world.  They both aim to rapidly upgrade their national 5G & Wireless Broadband network, providing flawless performance in dense urban radio environments. globe.com.ph/about-us/newsro… transcelestial.com/blog/why-… - Campus & Enterprise Growth Globally 🏫: Our demand in the Campus and Enterprise connectivity sector exploded beyond Telcos into education, ports, biomedical, and disaster recovery. E.g. In 2025, Guardant Health deployed Transcelestial links to solve campus connectivity challenges where fiber trenching was cost-prohibitive or environmentally disruptive. transcelestial.com/blog/heal… ~~~~ #3 Engineering the Base CENTAURI Platform to be Faster, Safer, More Resilient Than Ever ⚙️ The physics of shooting laser beams through turbulent air and changing weather, across kilometers, while maintaining multi-gigabit speeds and low bit error rate aren’t easy. In 2025, we saw some of the largest enhancements so far to CENTAURIm the CENTAURI+ which includes major upgrades including fully programmable layer 2 & 3 capabilities, upgrades in internal AI algos, optomechanics, and component selection that helped improve the level of capability and quality of this technology to new levels that the industry has never seen. - Introducing Centauri+ 📶: Our latest yet-to-be-publicly launched terminal features a new powerful FPGA-driven platform that opens up features such as Layer 2/3 SDN, Advanced Custom Forward Error Correction, low-latency VPN baked in, Quantum-Safe Encryption, and 10Gbps+ full-duplex capacity, delivering fiber-like speeds wirelessly. More details will be announced soon as we gradually open up from Beta with select customers to a Public Launch in Q1 2026. - AI-Driven Safety 🦺: We deployed a world-first AI Vision Laser Safety System. This AI monitors the laser beam path near the deployed terminals in real-time, withsub-100ms response), ensuring absolute safety for the public in dense urban areas and rooftops. This is the industry’s first application of AI to make hyper eye-safe class 1m laser terminals, gaining approvals of this approach from major international government health and safety bodies. - Proven Resiliency 💯: Our networks maintained 99.89% availability through monsoon seasons and diverse weather conditions, validated by over 5,000 operational hours in critical carrier networks. This gives the Transcelestial team the largest ongoing experience of running wireless lasercomms or FSO networks in PRODUCTION globally, today! - The “Doublet” Optical Breakthrough 🫗: We engineered and mass-produced a proprietary single-block receiver lens system. This “Doublet” design drastically reduces reflective signal loss and increases the tolerance for transmit/receive alignment shifts, significantly extending the operational lifespan and reliability of every unit in the field. This adds years to the lifetime of the terminals in the field going ahead increasing ROI for our customers. - Software-Defined Atmospheric Correction 🌦️: We released Centauri OS v5.28 as our biggest release of the year, featuring many upgrades to our groundbreaking advanced AI tracking algorithms that utilizes dynamic, adaptive response tuning of tracking parameters based on scintillation and visibility in real time across rain, haze, fog and snow. This version of the CENTAURI OS also allows the terminals to distinguish between physical vibrations (e.g., wind on a tower) and atmospheric scintillation (heat shimmer), adjusting the laser aim in microseconds to maintain lock during heavy rain or fog. - AI-Human Hybrid Software team 🤖: Our incredible engineering team has been heavily driving the AI-assisted software engineering wave with Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Pro as our key models driving code writing. In certain weeks, Norbot (Wallace and Gromit fans?), has written up to 50% of all code at record pace with picking up, branching, fixing, committing and then post a check from a senior developer, merged into master. This is clearly a new paradigm in shipping features at the rate of inference. ~~~~ #4 Better Positioned for Long-Term Growth in Affordable High-Speed Connectivity on Earth and Beyond 💸 We secured our future with strong backing from strategic global investment partners. - Series A3 Success 💰: We successfully closed a $9.7M Series A3 funding round, validating our vision and execution. This capital injection fuels our market growth in Japan, USA & Australia. It also brings significant power towards ramp-up of our “Terabit Factory” manufacturing capabilities (as much as 5-10x increase in production volumes seeing market demand).We welcomed NTT Finance, Paspalis and MPower Partners as key investors and a host of our existing investors (Seeds Capital, Kickstart Ventures). transcelestial.com/blog/tran… - Expanded Commercial Partnerships 📜: Across telecom, defence and space, Transcelestial has focused quite heavily on partnerships. Today we have 50+ sales and product partners with whom we sell-through or sell-with to the top telcos, governments and enterprises worldwide. Directly and indirectly, we have 100+ trained sales and support people as a result in all major Asian and American countries, who have a single focus – how can we educate more people about this technology and how can we put these terminals and services in the hands of as many as possible, and quickly. ~~~ #5 The Year Lasercomms Gained Wider Media Recognition and Education 📺 - SF Tech Week hosted by us with Breakneck’s Dan Wang discussed, US-China tech dynamics xitter.cf/jharohit/status/198407… - Vishal Harnan from 500 Global shared how we delivered one of the “weirdest pitches” he’d ever invested in linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… - EDB OSTIn talked about Transcelestial’s space lasers and orbital ambitions on CNBC linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… - Nikkei Asia highlighted our expansion across Japan asia.nikkei.com/business/tec… - We showcased how to navigate in RF- and GNSS-denied environments at sea at the Hatch Programme. linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… - my journey from banking to deep space tech was featured on CNBC cnbc.com/2025/01/13/he-quit-… linktr.ee/transcelestial - Our central collection of all things Transcelestial 👏 ~~~~ Looking Ahead ⛰︎ Transcelestial is one of the few companies that publicly checks all three boxes: commercial terrestrial links, announced/early space LCTs, and a branded OGS product line (TMOGS – Transcelestial Mother of all Optical Ground Stations). As demand continues to rise, the future of connectivity will not be solved by staying grounded. It will be shaped by networks that operate across land, sea, and space, working together as one system. 2025 marked the year that lift-off became operational reality. From here, the focus is on building upward, outward, and at scale! For more details follow us on X @trans_celestial or follow me!

Had a great catchup with @MrJamieLin today - what an inspiration as a CEO! We didn't meet in some boring corporate office but the startup space, @AppWorks, which has been a pioneering VC and coworking place for startups in the Taiwan ecosystem. At the heart of it, is Jamie and Taiwan Mobile's "Telco+Tech" strategy which has seen Taiwan Mobile skyrocket in revenues, energy, innovation and partnerships. It's been 2 years and counting we have supported Taiwan Mobile in 4G/5G backhaul, ports connectivity and disaster recovery. Today, we talked about our future on terrestrial, defence/national security and LEO Spacetech capabilities that Transcelestial is pioneering globally. Truly an innovative partner for us to grow together in some of these areas. Stay tuned! Our Head of Sales APAC, @lightspeedDK (seen here looking way more stylish than me!) has an open inbox and DM - so please reach out if you are keen on exploring lasercomms for a fast secure and best cost/bit solution for your needs in Taiwan! ❤️

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