This marked a monumental leap in long-distance communication. Earth successfully received a laser transmission from a record-breaking distance of 140 million miles – a feat with profound implications for future space exploration.
But hold on to your spacesuits! This wasn’t a message from an alien civilization. The transmission originated from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, currently cruising one and a half times the distance between Earth and the Sun.
“This represents a significant milestone,” declared Meera Srinivasan, project operations lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “Significant for the project by showing how optical communications can interface with a spacecraft’s radio frequency comms system,”
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