{"id":191154,"date":"2024-06-13T14:28:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/astronauts-submit-pet-images-for-space-laser-communication-demonstration"},"modified":"2024-06-13T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:28:21","slug":"astronauts-submit-pet-images-for-space-laser-communication-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/astronauts-submit-pet-images-for-space-laser-communication-demonstration","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts Submit Pet Images for Space Laser Communication Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronauts-submit-pet-images-for-space-laser-communication-demonstration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read about NASA\u2019s latest demonstration for its laser communication system!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Christina Koch, and Kjell Lindgren, and other NASA employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1048045\">recently sent images and videos<\/a> of their pets to the International Space Station (ISS) via the agency\u2019s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program to further test laser communications between ground-based stations and space-based systems, including the ISS. This demonstration holds the potential to further enhance laser communications systems that could be useful for long-term space missions.<\/p>\n<p>For this demonstration, the SCaN program used its elaborate and coordinated system consisting of the High-Rate Delay Tolerant Networking (HDTN), which is run by NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center and capable of sending data at quadruple the speeds of current DTN technology; NASA\u2019s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD), which orbits at 22,000 miles above the Earth; and the Integrated LCRD Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal (ILLUMA-T) payload attached to the ISS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about NASA\u2019s latest demonstration for its laser communication system! NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Christina Koch, and Kjell Lindgren, and other NASA employees recently sent images and videos of their pets to the International Space Station (ISS) via the agency\u2019s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program to further test laser communications between ground-based stations and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191154","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\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}