A spacecraft that never runs out of fuel sounds like science fiction, but a team at Texas A&M University has taken a small, literal step toward that goal. In experiments conducted at the university’s ...
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Scientists fired a laser into the sky to talk to a distant spacecraft. Here's what it said
Image shows the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA's Table Mountain Facility beaming a laser to NASA's ...
In 2007, NASA directed the robotic Cassini spacecraft that was then orbiting Saturn to swoop within 2,000 kilometers of the planet. Pictured here, from about 75,000 kilometers out, is the hemisphere ...
A Japanese spacecraft that departed Earth more than a decade ago managed to do something no other spacecraft before it did: perform laser ranging during an asteroid flyby. And this could have major ...
The 2027 demonstration will be the first in-flight test of laser communication between a reentry vehicle and a satellite. The system aims to transfer mission data at rates up to 2.5 gigabits per ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The Space Development Agency and its industry partners are closer to creating interoperable laser communications networks on orbit, experts said recently. The agency, which ...
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