{"id":176462,"date":"2023-11-21T19:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T01:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/earth-just-received-a-laser-beamed-message-from-16-million-kilometers-away"},"modified":"2023-11-21T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T01:23:11","slug":"earth-just-received-a-laser-beamed-message-from-16-million-kilometers-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/earth-just-received-a-laser-beamed-message-from-16-million-kilometers-away","title":{"rendered":"Earth Just Received A Laser-Beamed Message From 16 Million Kilometers Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-just-received-a-laser-beamed-message-from-16-million-kilometers-away3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking feat, a deep space experiment travelling on NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft has successfully transmitted data via a near-infrared laser to Earth from 16 million kilometres away!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A deep space experiment traveling on NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft has just beamed a message via laser to Earth from far beyond the Moon for the first time, an achievement that could transform how spacecraft communicate.<\/p>\n<p>In the farthest-ever demonstration of this type of optical communication, the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) beamed a near-infrared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/tags\/lasers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">laser<\/a> encoded with test data from its position around 16 million kilometers (10 million miles) away \u2013 which is around 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth \u2013 to the Hale Telescope at Caltech\u2019s Palomar Observatory in California.<\/p>\n<p>The DSOC is a two-year tech demonstration riding along on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/tags\/psyche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Psyche<\/a> as it makes its way to its prime target, asteroid Psyche. The demo achieved \u201cfirst light\u201d on November 14, according to NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages both missions, thanks to an incredibly precise maneuver that saw its laser transceiver lock onto JPL\u2019s powerful uplink laser beacon at its Table Mountain Observatory, which allowed the DSOC\u2019s transceiver to aim its downlink laser at Caltech\u2019s observatory 130 kilometers (100 miles) away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a groundbreaking feat, a deep space experiment travelling on NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft has successfully transmitted data via a near-infrared laser to Earth from 16 million kilometres away! A deep space experiment traveling on NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft has just beamed a message via laser to Earth from far beyond the Moon for the first time, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176462","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}