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Communicating With Lasers
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully showed that data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth at distances comparable to Mars.
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A Beacon to Space
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to the Deep Space Optical Communications flight laser transceiver aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft.
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Send Your Name Around the Moon
Artemis II will test NASA’s deep space capabilities as humans fly on the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the first time. Join the mission by launching your name around the moon alongside NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
Artemis II Boarding Pass about Send Your Name Around the Moon
