NASA uses laser link to beam data 140 million miles across space at 25 Mbps : tech@programming.dev

NASA uses laser link to beam data 140 million miles across space at 25 Mbps (www.techspot.com)

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[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago

Send a team to install a pair on the voyager probes!

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago

Great, now we’ll never get that data back

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Damn, 753 light seconds away (about 12.5 light minutes if my math is correct). 25 mbps is pretty good at that distance. Awesome feat of engineering.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago

And hitting a moving object in space at that distance for 12 minutes is impressive too! You have to know where the object will be 12 minutes ahead of time all the way. That's science right there.

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