{"id":85864,"date":"2018-12-15T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T20:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/lasers-help-keep-cubesats-on-target-to-handle-large-data-downlinks"},"modified":"2018-12-29T03:55:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T11:55:55","slug":"lasers-help-keep-cubesats-on-target-to-handle-large-data-downlinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/lasers-help-keep-cubesats-on-target-to-handle-large-data-downlinks","title":{"rendered":"Lasers help keep CubeSats on target to handle large data downlinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lasers-help-keep-cubesats-on-target-to-handle-large-data-downlinks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An MIT team is working on a new aiming system that will allow <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/nasa-cubesats-2017\/46320\/\" target=\"_blank\">CubeSats<\/a> to use lasers for high-bandwidth communications with Earth. The new laser-pointing platform uses a second directional beam to keep the primary data beam on focus, allowing the CubeSat to transmit large amounts of data without the need for heavy antennae or wasting propellant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/lasers-cubesats-target-data\/57687\/?amp=true&amp;__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/lasers-cubesats-target-data\/57687\/?amp=true&amp;__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/lasers-cubesats-target-data\/57687\/?amp=true&amp;__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/lasers-cubesats-target-data\/57687\/?amp=true&amp;__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An MIT team is working on a new aiming system that will allow CubeSats to use lasers for high-bandwidth communications with Earth. The new laser-pointing platform uses a second directional beam to keep the primary data beam on focus, allowing the CubeSat to transmit large amounts of data without the need for heavy antennae or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864","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=85864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86222,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864\/revisions\/86222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}