NASA's DSOC Experiment Achieves Farthest-Ever Demonstration of Optical Communications

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NASA's DSOC Experiment Achieves Farthest-Ever Demonstration of Optical Communications
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NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has successfully beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from a distance of nearly 16 million kilometers. This is the farthest-ever demonstration of optical communications.

NASA 's Deep Space Optical Communications ( DSOC ) experiment has successfully beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from a distance of nearly 16 million kilometers. This is the farthest-ever demonstration of optical communications . The experiment was conducted using the recently launched Psyche spacecraft, which is equipped with DSOC . The test data was sent to the Hale Telescope at Caltech 's Palomar Observatory in California.

DSOC is designed to send high-bandwidth test data to Earth during its two-year technology demonstration as Psyche travels to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter

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