Advancements in the silicon industry have unlocked exponential improvements in our current electronics and photonics systems enabling better cameras, better sensors, more powerful processors and more connected devices. This has placed extreme demands on the bandwidth needed to pull all the information down. Last year an estimated one-third (~27%) of satellites were not able to beam down all of the data generated by their instruments and with satellite industry growing at ~4%, we can see this effect multiplied sooner than later. The congested RF spectrum in space is unable to support the next generation of our technological advancement alone. From a network communications point of view on a terrestrial level these needs have been enabled by fiber optics. The same step needs to be taken in space to unlock high bandwidth communications.