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Optical Link Established Over 24 Million Kilometers

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In an experiment involving a spacecraft en route to the planet Mercury, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., have exchanged laser pulses with the Messenger probe over a distance of nearly 24 million kilometers. Reported in the Jan. 6 issue of Science, the simulation of two-way data communications over an interplanetary distance further indicates the practicability of such high-bandwidth optical solutions in space exploration missions. In a series of tests of Messenger’s laser altimeter in May 2005, the researchers directed the...Read full article

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    Published: February 2006
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