{"id":122584,"date":"2021-05-14T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T23:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/laser-communications-empowering-more-data-than-ever-before"},"modified":"2021-05-14T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T23:22:39","slug":"laser-communications-empowering-more-data-than-ever-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/laser-communications-empowering-more-data-than-ever-before","title":{"rendered":"Laser communications: Empowering more data than ever before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-communications-empowering-more-data-than-ever-before2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Launching this summer, NASA\u2019s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will showcase the dynamic powers of laser communications technologies. With NASA\u2019s ever-increasing human and robotic presence in space, missions can benefit from a new way of \u201ctalking\u201d with Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of spaceflight in the 1950s, NASA missions have leveraged <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/radio+frequency+communications\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radio frequency communications<\/a> to send data to and from space. Laser communications, also known as optical communications, will further empower missions with unprecedented data capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launching this summer, NASA\u2019s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will showcase the dynamic powers of laser communications technologies. With NASA\u2019s ever-increasing human and robotic presence in space, missions can benefit from a new way of \u201ctalking\u201d with Earth. Since the beginning of spaceflight in the 1950s, NASA missions have leveraged radio frequency communications to send [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}