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NASA beamed back a laser message from half a billion kilometers away 100 times faster than using radio waves
NASA has a new trick up its sleeve for space communication. In July 2024, the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration beamed a laser signal to the Psyche spacecraft, which ...
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NASA's laser comms demo makes deep space record, completes first phase
we didn't know how much performance degradation we would see at our farthest distances," said Meera Srinivasan, the project's operations lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern ...
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NASA breaks record for farthest laser communication with 466 million km message
we didn't know how much performance degradation we would see at our farthest distances," said Meera Srinivasan, the project's ...
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Netflix on Mars? Yeah maybe, thanks to NASA's laser comms demo
Meera Srinivasan, the project's operations lead at JPL, said: "The milestone is significant. Laser communication requires a very high level of precision, and before we launched with Psyche ...