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NASA upgraded its data transfer speeds, ‘more data than ever before’ – TweakTown

NASA has gone and upgraded its data transfer speeds while simultaneously demonstrated the power of laser communication technology.

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NASA is upgrading its data transfer speeds next month, which will allow researchers to transmit data between Earth and space.
NASA will soon be launching its Laser Communications Relay Demonstrations (LCRD) that is teed up to replace radio frequency communications that NASA has been using since the 1950s. NASA has decided to upgrade its data transfer speeds because space missions are now requiring things such as 4K video capturing, which has a much larger file size.
For example, with current radio…

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