NASA’s laser communications experiment just beamed back a video from space for the first time, and it features a cat named Taters chasing a laser pointer.

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 ...

EARTH has received a message from beyond the moon, 10 million miles away, in a major “leap” for space-based communications. The extraordinary development comes after NASA last month lau… ...

The DSOC team will be monitoring how long it takes for the laser messages to travel across space. During first light, it took only 50 seconds for the laser to travel from Psyche to Earth.

Earth Receives a Distant Laser Message from 10 Million Miles Away NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment hitched a ride aboard the Psyche spacecraft, headed toward the large ...

The DSOC team will be monitoring how long it takes for the laser messages to travel across space. During first light, it took only 50 seconds for the laser to travel from Psyche to Earth.

Since then, the tech demo has only improved, showcasing capabilities like improved pointing accuracy that’s so essential when sending laser messages from space to Earth. The laser’s fast data ...

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment beamed data encoded within a near-infrared laser from nearly 10 million miles in deep space (16 million kilometers) to the Hale ...

A NASA laser just fired successfully in a deep-space test. On Nov. 14, NASA picked up a laser signal fired from an instrument that launched with the Psyche spacecraft, which is currently more than ...

The DSOC team will be monitoring how long it takes for the laser messages to travel across space. During first light, it took only 50 seconds for the laser to travel from Psyche to Earth.

EARTH has received a message from beyond the moon, 10 million miles away, in a major “leap” for space-based communications. The extraordinary development comes after NASA last month lau… ...