MBRYONICS, announces Optical Communications breakthrough for space. Jun 09, 2026, 06:05 ET MBRYONICS Unveils STARLIGHT, The World's First 25G/100G/400G/800G Bi-Directional Coherent Optical Transceiver for Ultra High Speed Space Links GALWAY, Ireland, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - MBRYONICS, a global leader in satellite optical communications, today announced a landmark technical breakthrough: the development of MBRYONICS STARLIGHT, the world's first 25-800G Bi-Di Coherent Optical Transceiver. STARLIGHT is purpose-built from the ground-up for space and provides ultra high speed, free space optical links with dual lasers for separate transmit and receive wavelengths. The announcement coincides with MBRYONICS hosting the pan-European STARLight Consortium Annual General Meeting (AGM) on June 9th and 10th. The STARLight project brings together a consortium of leading industrial and academic partners to advance silicon photonics (SiPho) and aims to develop application-driven solutions focusing on key industry sectors such as datacenters, AI clusters, telecommunications, and automotive markets. As a member of the STARLight project, which is supported by the EU Chips Joint Undertaking funding of €110M/$127M, MBRYONICS has developed its STARLIGHT Coherent Transceivers to provide unprecedented connectivity in space. Leading the Next Frontier "Hosting the STARLight consortium is an honor and a testament to MBRYONICS' growing role in the New Space community," said John Mackey, CEO of MBRYONICS. "Our STARLIGHT Coherent Transceiver is a vital part of our satellite Optical Communications Platform, providing the global infrastructure needed to power the next generation of direct-to-device, cloud, and AI services." Breaking the RF Bottleneck with 800G Optical Pipes As the space economy transitions from standalone satellites to complex, data-heavy mesh networks, the 800G Coherent Transceiver represents the critical infrastructure required to move massive workloads off-planet. Legacy radio-frequency (RF) links impose critical bottlenecks in terms of data rates and transmission speeds, limiting the effectiveness of satellite links. MBRYONICS' transceivers enable the next generation of space connectivity for: * Direct To Device Satellite networks: advanced telecommunications infrastructure where low-orbiting satellites act as space-based cell towers, broadcasting cellular signals directly to everyday, unmodified smartphones. * Orbital Data Centres: Real-time processing of petabytes of data without downlinking to Earth, powered by endless solar energy. * Edge Cloud Compute: Low-latency, high-capacity "Fiber in the Sky" for AI and global enterprise applications. * Universal Integration: Seamlessly bridging terrestrial fiber networks with multi-orbit non-terrestrial networks (NTN) to provide ultra-fast datastreams anywhere on Earth directly to mobile devices. About MBRYONICS: MBRYONICS provides the only end to end Optical Communications Platform to enable the internet in space. MBRYONICS interconnects satellite networks across LEO, MEO and GEO orbits, and Ground Stations on Earth, to create a network of networks. The company's 25-800G transceiver platform is the only solution compatible with all major optical communication standards, delivering the highest throughputs and enabling true Cislunar connectivity. The company is based in Galway, Ireland and San Francisco, California. SOURCE MBRYONICS

MBRYONICS, a satellite optical transport company, and NTT have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop coherent optical transceivers for space applications. The partnership aims to create a standardised, high-speed backbone for space communications across the "Internet in Space". MBRYONICS will become the first company to integrate NTT's advanced digital signal processing chips into its optical communications transceiver platform. The collaboration will focus on standardising high-speed links across satellite constellations, global deployment of optical transceivers, and creating seamless convergence between terrestrial fibre and satellite networks. The partnership combines NTT's telecommunications expertise with MBRYONICS' photonic satellite solutions to address growing demand for high-capacity, low-latency connectivity in the orbital economy. MBRYONICS' platform supports 25-800G transceivers compatible with LEO, MEO and GEO constellations.

MBRYONICS, an optical communications startup, has been selected by the European Space Agency for the €18.6 million HydRON Element 3 programme, led by Kepler Communications. The company will provide its StarCom optical terminal and ground station testbed to demonstrate interoperability during in-orbit demonstrations. HydRON aims to create the world's first multi-orbital optical communications network with terabit-per-second capacity. MBRYONICS' technology enables satellites from different providers to communicate seamlessly in orbit, having previously demonstrated this capability in DARPA's Space BACN programme. To meet growing demand in Europe and the US, MBRYONICS is building a second manufacturing facility in Shannon, Ireland. The 40,000-square-foot Photon 2 facility will produce thousands of terminals by 2027. The company remains the only provider proven to handle all optical communication standards.