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#1 NASA changing over to laser-based comms

Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 1:26 am
by rhoenix
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They're planning on test-driving this system on a new satellite in 2017, and working on refining it thereafter. The raw data possible to be transmitted would greatly help with future missions, especially as mission and data complexity continues to rise.