Radio in space is dead. 🛰️ We are just waiting for everyone to realize it. Modern satellites generate 200× more data than 20 years ago. But more importantly: RF broadcasts make space networks an easy target to detect, intercept, and jam. That’s why defense networks are switching from RF to optical laser links as it is physically impossible to jam without standing directly in the beam. Here’s the 1-page cheat sheet comparing RF vs. Lasers👇

Lasers can carry 10 to 100x more data than comparable radio links.🛰️ The Centre for @spacefutures_sa Space Technologies report makes that case, and lists @trans_celestial as one of the market signals for the shift.

Radio has hit its limit in space. One image from Mars can take almost a day to download. Closer to home, the problem is scale. Satellites already collect more data than radio can send down, and AI and data centers moving into orbit will multiply that many times over. Radio spectrum is limited and crowded. It can't keep up. Our CEO @jharohit joined @NYSE Live to explain what replaces it: laser links that carry fiber-grade data between satellites and down to Earth.

Via Satellite asked what space looks like in 2040 for their 40th anniversary issue. As our CEO @jharohit put it: your data will be moving through space at the speed of light. Most of the internet still runs on cables on the ocean floor. One gets cut and a whole region slows down. Laser links between satellites, and from space to ground, change that.

"Anyone can build data centers, but if you can't talk to these AI systems, then those data centers are useless." Our CEO @jharohit to CNBC on orbital data centers this week. SpaceX wants orbital data centers up by late 2027. Analysts say 2030s. Either way the hard part isn't getting them up there. It's moving AI-scale data back to the ground across a gap no cable can reach. That's what we're building for.

Indonesia has 5 years to connect the sites with little or no 5G. We are partnering with @telkominfra to get there with lasers before fibre can. Not because fibre is wrong. Because permits, rights of way and trenching take months per route. Live at 40 sites. All 11 regions next

40+ CENTAURI links live across Indonesia today, including 10 Gbps at Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali. Most asked question this week: how far does it go? 300 km covered, 1.8 Tbps delivered across deployed links. All running today. Got a site you can't get fiber to? Send us the coordinates.

One line on repeat at #BATIC2026: "We know where we need the capacity, we just can't get to it." Telcos scaling 5G, data centres chasing AI workloads, same bottleneck: the last few km. Signed an expansion with Telkominfra, @TelkomIndonesia's infrastructure arm, to take wireless laser across the region.

Day 1 at #BATIC2026, and a reminder for anyone who flew into Ngurah Rai this morning: Two CENTAURI terminals at the domestic side have held a 10Gbps link across the airport for 2 years. No trenching, no licensing. Table B26, Nusa Dua, Bali next 4 days. Come say hi.

Satellites capture terabytes of imagery every day, then delete most of it. Not because it's useless. Because radio links are too slow to bring it down. We're fixing that with LatConnect 60. Their SWIRSAT-1 mission is flying our 10Gbps optical terminal and plugging straight into our space-to-ground laser network. The math: a 7-minute radio pass moves about 5GB. The laser link moves ~500GB in the same window. 100x more data, ground stations included, no years spent building and licensing a custom network. SWIRSAT-1 launches Q1 2027, first step toward an 18-satellite constellation by 2029. Dark fibre for orbit. If you're an operator tired of throwing away data you paid to collect, our DMs are open.