Transmission to Psyche craft by Jet Propulsion Lab facility in California “exceeds project expectations”. The Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory in California. NASA’s Deep Space Optical ...

Introduced in early 1970s, the Laser Range Pole was designed by NASA-GODDARD for the use of the U.S. Forest Service. The operational versions were produced by RCA Corp. in Burlington, Mass. A sticker ...

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Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 ...

In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not ...

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Scientists lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 probe from Oct. 19 to Oct. 24, after a technical malfunction forced the spacecraft's main radio transmitter to shut down, NASA officials wrote ...

Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to using a backup radio transmitter that has been inactive since 1981. The interstellar explorer experienced a brief pause ...