{"id":111789,"date":"2024-10-08T13:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T06:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=111789"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T06:22:47","slug":"nasa-spacecraft-receives-signal-from-290-million-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=111789","title":{"rendered":"Nasa spacecraft receives signal from 290 million miles away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div data-testid=\"nsc-wrapper-support-us\">\n<div class=\"hydrate-root\" data-component=\"SupportNSCNative\" data-loading=\"lazy\" data-theme-name=\"base\">\n<div class=\"sc-hez36s-0 jFIvoO\">\n<div class=\"sc-hez36s-1 gdynTf\">\n<div class=\"sc-hez36s-11 dZffnw\">\n<h3 data-testid=\"support-nsc-title\" class=\"sc-hez36s-2 hfUJpx\">Your support helps us to tell the story<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-hez36s-15 droMuk\">\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"support-nsc-collapsed-content\" class=\"sc-hez36s-6 bslVoX\">Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts.<\/p>\n<p><b>Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda.<\/b><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"support-nsc-author\" class=\"sc-hez36s-7 KRieK\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/static.independent.co.uk\/static-assets\/support-us\/louise-thomas.png\" alt=\"Louise Thomas\" class=\"sc-hez36s-10 jjaUOS\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><button data-testid=\"support-nsc-dropdown\" class=\"sc-hez36s-3 fFFwdM\"><span class=\"sc-hez36s-5 iMpnvH\"><span class=\"sc-hez36s-4 DFSvu\">Find out more<\/span><svg class=\"sc-eaj12q-0 kMSyUM sc-culv3z-0 jIhHch sc-a5wy94-0 jhbxrS\"><use href=\"#ee6613da15642019\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nasa\">Nasa<\/a> has successfully sent a laser signal about 290 million miles, smashing previous records and potentially transforming our exploration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/solar-system\">solar system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone was reached by Nasa\u2019s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration, which is exploring whether it is possible to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/lasers\">lasers<\/a> to send messages deep into space. Lasers can send data at rates up to 100 times that of the radio frequencies used today, allowing for more complex and high-definition data, but they also require much greater precision to work.<\/p>\n<p>It was sent to the Psyche spacecraft, which launched in October 2023. Its main mission is to study an asteroid with the same name, but it is also carrying the Nasa experiment to test laser communication through space.<\/p>\n<p>The distance \u2013\u00a0which equates to about 460 million kilometres\u00a0\u2013\u00a0is roughly the same as that between the Earth and Mars when they are their most distant.<\/p>\n<p>Nasa hopes that the laser technology can help empower future crewed missions to Mars, among other exploration of our solar system, and so the successful test marks a major breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe milestone is significant. Laser communication requires a very high level of precision, and before we launched with Psyche, we didn\u2019t know how much performance degradation we would see at our farthest distances,\u201d said Meera Srinivasan, the project\u2019s operations lead at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the techniques we use to track and point have been verified, confirming that optical communications can be a robust and transformative way to explore the solar system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nasa administrator Bill Nelson sent his congratulations to the team involved, on Twitter\/X. \u201cThis extraordinary achievement will transform the way we explore the solar system,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/space\/nasa-spacecraft-signal-laser-beam-b2459893.html\">Late last year, Nasa announced that it had successfully completed one such transmission from 10 million miles away<\/a>. In the time since, it has broken through a whole set of records as Psyche continues to travel further from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>That also included the first ultra high-definition video beamed from space. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/ap-cape-canaveral-nasa-earth-caltech-b2466861.html\">That happened late last year \u2013\u00a0when Psyche sent pictures of a cat named Taters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the distance from Earth increases, the speed of the connection is reduced. When it was 33 miles away, the spacecraft could receive data at its maximum rate of 267 megabits per second\u00a0\u2013\u00a0but when the latest record was broken, in summer, it was hitting maximums of only 8.3 megabits per second.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/space\/nasa-signal-message-deep-space-psyche-b2625500.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth. 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