Space laser transmission strikes Earth from 140 million miles away: NASA

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2024/04/29/lifestyle/space-laser-transmission-strikes-
earth-from-140-million-miles-away-nasa/

This redefined a long-distance call.

Earth just received a laser transmission from a world- (and perhaps
universe) record-breaking 140 million miles away — which could have major
implications for the future of space travel.

However, this correspondence wasn’t extraterrestrial in origin: It was
actually sent by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is currently located
approximately 1.5 times the distance between Earth and the Sun.

“This represents a significant milestone for the project by showing how
optical communications can interface with a spacecraft’s radio frequency
comms system,” Meera Srinivasan, the project’s operations lead at NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement.

This major breakthrough was achieved by using a Psyche feature called Deep
Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, one of the droid’s several task per
Space.com. Its main directive is exploring 16 Psyche, the $100,000
quadrillion asteroid from which it takes its name.

NASA wanted to show the potential for laser communications to be conducted
across interstellar distances, allowing for high bandwidth and a much
speedier connection — from 10 to 100 times faster than what’s available
today — between humans and the probes they send into space.

This achievement was particularly significant as, along with sending the
laser message a record-breaking distance, NASA also managed to transmit
actual data gathered from the spacecraft.

“We downlinked about 10 minutes of duplicated spacecraft data,” explained
Srinivasan. “Until then, we’d been sending test and diagnostic data in our
downlinks from Psyche.”

To wit, in November of last year, Psyche sent back to Earth from 10
million miles away, but it was pre-loaded test data and not any “real”
info.

This marked the culmination of a series of messages sent by the probe
since it launched on October 13th atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket.

During a prior dry run in December, Psyche beamed data back from 19
million miles away, sending it at the system’s maximum rate of 267
megabits per second.

This correspondence — which included footage of an orange tabby cat named
Taters — took around just over a minute and a half to reach earth, which
is comparable to broadband internet speeds.

By contrast, this latest DSOC transmission was only 25 megabits. This was
due to the fact that Psyche was seven times further away, reducing the
speed at which it could send and receive messages.

Despite the comparatively syrupy speed, this nonetheless eclipsed the
project’s goal of “proving at least 1 Mbps was possible at that distance,”
per the release.

This watershed moment provides a taste of how spacecraft “could use
optical communications in support of humanity’s next giant leap: sending
humans to Mars,” NASA wrote.

Psyche is slated to fly by the Red Planet by 2026, whereupon it will fly
toward its main destination, 16 Psyche, which it should reach by 2029.

Like the early pioneers’ search for the Northwest Passage, it will aim to
map out this final frontier El Dorado, which contains enough precious
metals to crash the gold market.

Conversation

Retired NYPD
3 hours ago

The message was decifered by 51 US intelligence experts. It clearly
stated in Morse code "TRUMP REALY WON IN 2020." It took them at five
seconds to declare the space module was hacked transmitting Russian
disinformation.

This is really not that exciting. Can it core an apple?
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[Tyrone]

On Apr 30, 2024 at 3:43:46 PM EDT, ""Leroy N. Soetoro""

Post by Leroy N. Soetoro
NASA wanted to show the potential for laser communications to be conducted
across interstellar distances,

Then NASA failed. 140 million miles is FAR FAR from "interstellar distances".
Proxima Centauri, the nearest star (other than The Sun) is 25 TRILLION miles
away.

[Siri Cruise]

Post by Tyrone
On Apr 30, 2024 at 3:43:46 PM EDT, ""Leroy N. Soetoro""

Post by Leroy N. Soetoro
NASA wanted to show the potential for laser communications to be conducted
across interstellar distances,

Then NASA failed. 140 million miles is FAR FAR from "interstellar distances".
Proxima Centauri, the nearest star (other than The Sun) is 25 TRILLION miles
away.

Have they used laser before or just radio. So this could be
technology test. Based on received signal, it can provide real
world information on attenuation and decoherence on the ability to
signal.

[Vincent]

Post by Tyrone
On Apr 30, 2024 at 3:43:46 PM EDT, ""Leroy N. Soetoro""

Post by Leroy N. Soetoro
NASA wanted to show the potential for laser communications to be conducted
across interstellar distances,

Then NASA failed. 140 million miles is FAR FAR from "interstellar distances".
Proxima Centauri, the nearest star (other than The Sun) is 25 TRILLION miles
away.

Can you imagine the diffusion of a laser at those ranges? The target
search in many many multiples of 64 would be enormous. I also wonder at
just how immense the output needs to be in order to penetrate space
gases etc? Or just how fine the Bimorph crystalline trackers need to be?

[Paul Szypula]

Post by Leroy N. Soetoro
https://nypost.com/2024/04/29/lifestyle/space-laser-transmission-strikes-
earth-from-140-million-miles-away-nasa/
This redefined a long-distance call.
Earth just received a laser transmission from a world- (and perhaps
universe) record-breaking 140 million miles away — which could have major
implications for the future of space travel.
However, this correspondence wasn’t extraterrestrial in origin: It was
actually sent by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is currently located
approximately 1.5 times the distance between Earth and the Sun.
“This represents a significant milestone for the project by showing how
optical communications can interface with a spacecraft’s radio frequency
comms system,” Meera Srinivasan, the project’s operations lead at NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement.
This major breakthrough was achieved by using a Psyche feature called Deep
Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, one of the droid’s several task per
Space.com. Its main directive is exploring 16 Psyche, the $100,000
quadrillion asteroid from which it takes its name.
NASA wanted to show the potential for laser communications to be conducted
across interstellar distances, allowing for high bandwidth and a much
speedier connection — from 10 to 100 times faster than what’s available
today — between humans and the probes they send into space.
This achievement was particularly significant as, along with sending the
laser message a record-breaking distance, NASA also managed to transmit
actual data gathered from the spacecraft.
“We downlinked about 10 minutes of duplicated spacecraft data,” explained
Srinivasan. “Until then, we’d been sending test and diagnostic data in our
downlinks from Psyche.”
To wit, in November of last year, Psyche sent back to Earth from 10
million miles away, but it was pre-loaded test data and not any “real”
info.
This marked the culmination of a series of messages sent by the probe
since it launched on October 13th atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket.
During a prior dry run in December, Psyche beamed data back from 19
million miles away, sending it at the system’s maximum rate of 267
megabits per second.
This correspondence — which included footage of an orange tabby cat named
Taters — took around just over a minute and a half to reach earth, which
is comparable to broadband internet speeds.
By contrast, this latest DSOC transmission was only 25 megabits. This was
due to the fact that Psyche was seven times further away, reducing the
speed at which it could send and receive messages.
Despite the comparatively syrupy speed, this nonetheless eclipsed the
project’s goal of “proving at least 1 Mbps was possible at that distance,”
per the release.
This watershed moment provides a taste of how spacecraft “could use
optical communications in support of humanity’s next giant leap: sending
humans to Mars,” NASA wrote.
Psyche is slated to fly by the Red Planet by 2026, whereupon it will fly
toward its main destination, 16 Psyche, which it should reach by 2029.
Like the early pioneers’ search for the Northwest Passage, it will aim to
map out this final frontier El Dorado, which contains enough precious
metals to crash the gold market.
Conversation
Retired NYPD
3 hours ago
The message was decifered by 51 US intelligence experts. It clearly
stated in Morse code "TRUMP REALY WON IN 2020." It took them at five
seconds to declare the space module was hacked transmitting Russian
disinformation.
This is really not that exciting. Can it core an apple?

Jewish Space Lasers are real.

[Gronk]

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