{"id":21514,"date":"2016-02-02T08:46:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/nasas-new-light-based-modem-will-transmit-data-up-to-100-times-faster-than-radio-signals"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:13:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:13:16","slug":"nasas-new-light-based-modem-will-transmit-data-up-to-100-times-faster-than-radio-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/nasas-new-light-based-modem-will-transmit-data-up-to-100-times-faster-than-radio-signals","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s new light-based modem will transmit data up to 100 times faster than radio signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-new-light-based-modem-will-transmit-data-up-to-100-times-faster-than-radio-signals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is developing a first-if-its-kind modem that incorporates light-based technology to help enable dramatically faster communications between spacecraft and ground stations.<\/p>\n<p>The device, which is scheduled to be tested on board the International Space Station in 2020, is part of a broader NASA project called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/tdm\/lcrd\/index.html\">Laser Communications Relay Demonstration<\/a> (LCRD). This laser system, which the space agency says could dramatically overhaul today\u2019s radio frequency (RF) communications, will enable data transmissions at rates 10 to 100 times faster than what\u2019s currently possible.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time NASA has experimented with laser communications in place of radio signals. In 2013, the agency achieved record-breaking download and upload speeds to and from lunar orbit \u2013 at 622 megabits per second (Mbps) and 20 Mbps respectively \u2013 with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/ladee\/main\/index.html\">Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer<\/a> (LADEE).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-s-new-photonics-modem-will-help-lasers-carry-data-at-up-to-100-times-faster-than-today-s-radio-signals\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is developing a first-if-its-kind modem that incorporates light-based technology to help enable dramatically faster communications between spacecraft and ground stations. The device, which is scheduled to be tested on board the International Space Station in 2020, is part of a broader NASA project called the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD). This laser system, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68630,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514\/revisions\/68630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}