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An experimental antenna has received both radio frequency and near-infrared laser signals from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft as it travels through deep space.

The tech demo’s flight laser transceiver is riding with the agency’s Psyche spacecraft, which launched on 13 October 2023. On 1 January 2024, the antenna downlinked a team photograph that had been uploaded to DSOC before Psyche’s launch. Designed and built by JPL’s Microdevices Laboratory, the detector is identical to the one used at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory, which acts as DSOC’s downlink ground station.

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