DSOC Sends, Receives First Data

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications Platform Tested

NASA Psych Spacecraft

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has achieved "first light", beaming a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 10 million miles away – about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth – to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. This is the farth…