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DSOC Sends, Receives First Data

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications Platform Tested

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Tom Patton
Nov 22, 2023
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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…

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