{"id":219217,"date":"2025-08-01T08:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/observatory-in-greece-achieves-deep-space-laser-link-with-nasas-psyche"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:05:40","slug":"observatory-in-greece-achieves-deep-space-laser-link-with-nasas-psyche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/observatory-in-greece-achieves-deep-space-laser-link-with-nasas-psyche","title":{"rendered":"Observatory in Greece Achieves Deep-Space Laser Link With NASA\u2019s \u2018Psyche\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/observatory-in-greece-achieves-deep-space-laser-link-with-nasas-psyche.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A milestone in space communication was celebrated in Athens, the capital of <a href=\"https:\/\/greekreporter.com\/greece\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Greece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greece<\/a>, on Wednesday, as the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) was formally recognized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Space Agency<\/a> (ESA) for its pivotal role in the first-ever optical communication link with a spacecraft in deep space, a landmark achievement in international space collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking laser communication link between NASA\u2019s \u201cPsyche\u201d spacecraft\u2014currently <a href=\"https:\/\/greekreporter.com\/2025\/03\/22\/stamatios-krimigis-greek-astrophysicist-mars-space-exploration\/\">en route to Mars <\/a>\u2014and Greece\u2019s Kryoneri Observatory in Corinth was established on July 7, 2025. The project, a joint effort by NASA and ESA, involved transmitting a laser message across nearly 300 million kilometers (about 186.4 million miles). The message, sent from Kryoneri, was received shortly afterward at the Helmos Observatory\u2019s Aristarchos Telescope in Achaia, northern Peloponnese, just 37 kilometers (23 miles) away.<\/p>\n<p>This experiment marked the deepest wideband optical communication link ever recorded in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A milestone in space communication was celebrated in Athens, the capital of Greece, on Wednesday, as the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) was formally recognized by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its pivotal role in the first-ever optical communication link with a spacecraft in deep space, a landmark achievement in international space collaboration. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219217","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}