NASA Receives Historic Laser Message from Deep Space

NASA's Psyche mission has achieved a major milestone by successfully demonstrating laser communications from a distance of 10 million miles away, marking the most distant use of high-bandwidth laser communications. The Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration (DSOC) on board the Psyche spacecraft sent and received its first data using an invisible near-infrared laser, which can transmit data at 10 to 100 times the speed of traditional radio wave systems. If successful, this experiment could pave the way for future communication technology for human exploration of Mars.