The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA’s future human missions to Mars. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology successfully showed that data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth at distances […]
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Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Psyche Mission, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Operations Mission Directorate, Space Technology Mission Directorate, Tech Demo Missions
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September 18, 2025
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