Canada Global(Web News) The American space agency NASA has successfully tested a laser signal from a spacecraft located at a distance of 16 million kilometers.
The American space agency has said in a statement that a message sent with the help of a laser from a spacecraft millions of kilometers away has the potential to change space communication. The reception of the message is the success of NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment. Indicates. This is the first time that laser data has been successfully transmitted from a spacecraft 40 times away from the Moon. At present, all spacecraft in space are contacted by radio signals, while signals from large antennas installed around the world. are sent and received.
Although this method of messaging has proven reliable, it has limited bandwidth that means sending large files such as HD photos and videos is slow and impossible. According to the space agency, NASA’s work on DSOC aims to Optical communication through lasers is to be used. This technology can improve the data rate up to 100 times.
The first attempt to test this technology at greater distances from the Moon was made as NASA’s Psyche mission. The mission, which was launched last month, was to study an asteroid in space far from Earth. The spacecraft is equipped with a laser transceiver that can receive and transmit near-infrared laser signals. First Light, NASA says. The success is part of a series of experiments that give hope that laser technology can be useful.
