NASA’s Laser Comms Demo Makes Deep Space Record, Completes First Phase

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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is depicted receiving a laser signal from the Deep Space Optical Communications uplink ground station at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility in this artist’s concept. The DSOC experiment consists of an uplink and downlink station, plus a flight laser transceiver flying with Psyche.

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The Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones...