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NASA Activates 622 Mbps Laser Network Between the Earth and Moon

Posted October 24, 2013 3:30 PM

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Using their new lunar laser link, NASA and MIT have succeeded in beaming data from the Moon at 622 megabits per second. This impressive feat is an important step in moving away from radio communications, which have reached the limit in the face of the new data demands for work in space.

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10/24/2013 8:51 PM

Sounds like NASA's "laser light-beam" version of the USN's "shuttered light" communications between ships used during WWI and WWII...where, if you weren't exactly "in" the beam pattern of the shuttered light beam, you typically could NOT read what was being transmitted, ie: "security" of optical transmission.

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10/25/2013 10:41 AM


A little more to the left.....!

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