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NASA uses laser link to beam data 140 million miles across space at 25 Mbps (www.techspot.com)
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[-] iegod@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Just read the article.

Psyche mission launched on October 13, 2023, with the goal of exploring the origin of planetary cores and studying the metallic asteroid known as 16 Psyche. The spacecraft is scheduled to reach the namesake asteroid in 2029.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago

It's definitely not 140m miles away after just a year.

[-] iegod@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Actually, it is! Space motion isn't straightforward. Here's another article that has a diagram indicating the relative positions.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-optical-comms-demo-transmits-data-over-140-million-miles

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Oh wow thanks! I did not have the perspective for the distance. I figured that was Voyager 1 kind of numbers.

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

Voyager 1 is in the neighborhood of 15b miles from earth!

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Hot damn

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