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Space Force X-37B Flies OTV-8 With a Quantum Compass and Laser Link After the 434-Day Vandenberg Landing
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March 8, 2025
Space Force X-37B Flies OTV-8 With a Quantum Compass and Laser Link After the 434-Day Vandenberg Landing
After a 434-day elliptical flight and an aerobraking landing at Vandenberg, the Space Force X-37B went back up as OTV-8 with a quantum inertial sensor and a laser communications test.
NASA’s Psyche Laser Sent 13.6 Terabits From Deep Space, Then Mars Flung the Spacecraft Toward a Metal Asteroid
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April 30, 2024
NASA’s Psyche Laser Sent 13.6 Terabits From Deep Space, Then Mars Flung the Spacecraft Toward a Metal Asteroid
NASA's Psyche spacecraft used a laser to move 13.6 terabits across deep space. The demo ended in 2025. In May 2026 Mars gave the probe a 1,000-mph boost toward asteroid…