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NASA Tests Laser Communications Across 10 Million Miles in Space

The DSOC attached to the Psyche deep-space probeNASANASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) unit on the Psyche spacecraft has activated, creating a high-speed laser data link at a distance of 10 million miles (16 million km), equivalent to 40 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.NASA has expressed a strong interest in developing...