{"id":177927,"date":"2023-12-09T17:24:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-receives-laser-signal-from-10-million-miles-away"},"modified":"2023-12-09T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T23:24:21","slug":"nasa-receives-laser-signal-from-10-million-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-receives-laser-signal-from-10-million-miles-away","title":{"rendered":"NASA Receives Laser Signal From 10 Million Miles Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-receives-laser-signal-from-10-million-miles-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has been laser-beamed data from millions of miles away \u2014 and it was a message the agency sent itself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/INFavIUmhcE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasas-deep-space-optical-comm-demo-sends-receives-first-data\" class=\"\">press release<\/a>, the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Lab at Caltech said that it has achieved \u201cfirst light\u201d laser communication via its Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, which was launched last month <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/spacex-nasa-mission-psyche\" class=\"\">on the Psyche spacecraft<\/a> that\u2019s currently making its way to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment\u2019s main focus is seeing how viable optical communications, or data transmitted via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=INFavIUmhcE\" class=\"\"><em>freakin laser beams<\/em><\/a>, can be as we as a species properly enter our spacefaring age. And by all accounts, it was a resounding success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has been laser-beamed data from millions of miles away \u2014 and it was a message the agency sent itself. In a press release, the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Lab at Caltech said that it has achieved \u201cfirst light\u201d laser communication via its Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, which was launched last month on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177927","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}