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Australia installs first space laser optical ground station in southern hemisphere – ABC News
Satellites use surprisingly old-fashioned technology to transmit data back to Earth — but powerful space lasers are about to…
Recently, my colleagues and I swung a half-tonne telescope onto the roof of the physics building at the University of Western Australia.
Key points:
- Satellites and spacecraft generate more data than they can send back to Earth
- This bottleneck could be solved…
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