Space Lasers Could Revolutionize NASA Communications

Date 2nd, Oct 2023
Source IEEE Spectrum - Scientific and Educational Websites

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It is thanks to S-band radio that the world got to join in—live—as the astronauts of Apollo 11 walked on the moon. The video images were ghostly, and the audio was filled with static. But they were real, watched by half a billion people on Earth as Neil Armstrong said, “That’s one small step for man….”