Saturday 17 October 2015

Asteroid Impact Mission sets sights on new laser communications record



Laser-based communications has the ability to beam enormous amounts of data at high speed, but the use of this technology in space is still in its infancy. To help push things along, ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) will carry out a record-setting demonstration of space laser communications across a distance of 75 million kilometers while orbiting a binary asteroid.

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Section: Space

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Asteroid
Communications
Laser
ESA

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