{"id":432792,"date":"2026-02-18T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432792\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:18:09","slug":"how-a-2-watt-laser-outperformed-the-satellite-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432792\/","title":{"rendered":"How a 2-watt laser outperformed the satellite giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tHow a 2-watt laser outperformed the satellite giants &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>February 18, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BlackJack3D-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"tiny laser\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    Here\u2019s how a tiny laser outperformed the satellite giants \u00a9 BlackJack3D<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How a 2-watt laser outperformed the satellite giants &#8211; Futura-Sciences February 18, 2026 3 min Here\u2019s how a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[158226,156224,158227,42271,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-432792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-china-space-project","9":"tag-geostationary-orbit","10":"tag-laser-technology","11":"tag-satellite-communication","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}