It might help reduce the affect of attenuation at a cost of more latency in the processing chain. This could help, afaik it's only been tested to Mars and not

It might help reduce the affect of attenuation at a cost of more latency in the processing chain. This could help, afaik it's only been tested to Mars and not in production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_communication_in_space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_communication_in_space