How do we communicate with spacecraft? For decades, satellites have beamed data back to Earth by way of radio waves, with a network of ground-based antennas collecting the incoming information. Now, we’re exploring laser communications, technology that will allow us to receive more data from farther than ever before — faster, too. NASA space communications expert Risha George tells us more. Credit: NASA
NASA is also developing ways to communicate with invisible infrared lasers.
Laser communications offer missions higher data rates than ever before, allowing us to transmit more data at once.
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