"NASA's Psyche Probe Sends Laser-Beamed Message 10 Million Miles Away"

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) system, which uses laser light instead of radio waves, successfully transmitted and received data from the Psyche spacecraft, currently over 10 million miles away from Earth. This marks the first successful test of the next-generation comms link, which aims to speed up communications in deep space. If successful, laser communications could be used by future astronauts on missions to the moon or Mars, allowing for faster and more efficient data transmission. The Psyche spacecraft is on its way to study a mysterious metal asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.