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NASA Set To Test New Space Laser Communication Systems – Interesting Engineering

To cope with more data transmitted between Earth and space, NASA will test its new laser communication system this summer.

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To stay on track with ever-increasing data being sent from space to Earth, NASA announced it’ll be testing laser communication systems starting this summer. 
Space missions are seeing new technologies and instruments capable of gathering more data than ever before. So in order to send this data back to Earth as quickly, and safely as possible, NASA plans to move away from the current and traditional radio frequency communications and to instead welcome laser communications, also known as optical…

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