Getting a live play-by-play of astronauts in space during future Artemis moon missions could eventually be possible thanks to laser technology.NASA is testing a space communication method that, instead of using radio waves to transmit data and videos, uses a laser beam to connect ground control on Earth with astronauts on the moon.
The bar has been set for a while, with NASA teams making huge strides in laser communications since an experiment performed in December of 2023. After years of working on the technology, during this test, a video of Taters the cat was sent through a laser communications streaming service from 19 million miles away back to Earth.
The next round of experiments began in early June, and featured connecting NASA’s Pilatus PC-12 plane back to instruments at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland via laser link. Heading into July, the team historically sent a 4K video on a roundtrip journey to the International Space Station (ISS) from an aircraft. And on July 30, Space.com witnessed the completion of another experiment in the series as the aircraft did another test run of the so-called High-Rate Delay Tolerant Networking system (HDTN).
“HDTN has actually broken several world records and achieved some firsts for space in general and the United States,” Rachel Dudukovich, lead engineer for HDTN at NASA Glenn told Space.com. “We’ve demonstrated a…
Source www.space.com
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