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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…

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Recently, my colleagues and I swung a half-tonne telescope onto the roof of the physics building at the University of Western Australia.
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  • Satellites and spacecraft generate more data than they can send back to Earth
  • This bottleneck could be solved…

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