Psyche spacecraft sends data back to Earth using lasers for the first time
NASA ’s observational optical maser communication system , ride along with the Psyche spacecraft , has hit another milestone . The system was recently used to carry Psyche data from over 140 million miles ( 226 million km ) away . The scheme , called Deep Space Optical Communications , or DSOC , has previously been used tosend mental testing dataand even tosend a video of a big cat , to try whether using optical maser communications in improver to the common radio communications is potential ....