NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth—to send a high-definition cat video. The ...
It’s been quite a year for laser communications in space. In October and November, NASA launched two pioneering demonstrations to test high-bandwidth optical communication links, and these tech demos ...
Using laser communication, NASA streamed a cat video from almost 20 million miles away, or 40 round-trip flights to the moon. By Sopan Deb On Dec. 11, NASA engineers anxiously gathered at the Jet ...