WASHINGTON, July 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA invites media to attend a
real-time laser communications experiment at the agency's Glenn
Research Center in Cleveland.
Researchers are testing a laser communications networking system
that could enable the public to watch the first woman and first
person of color walk on the Moon in HD during Artemis
missions.
The media availability begins at 11 a.m.
EDT on Tuesday, July 30 (weather permitting) at the NASA
Glenn aircraft hangar. Media will have the opportunity to see
NASA's Pilatus PC-12 aircraft take off and to film researchers on
the ground as they communicate with the airborne team.
During these tests, researchers flying over Lake Erie will test communications between
NASA Glenn and the aircraft using High-Rate Delay Tolerant
Networking developed by Glenn. The data is transferred over laser
communications links at a rate of 1.2 gigabits per second — faster
than most home internet speeds.
Earlier this summer, the research team streamed
4K video to the International Space
Station from an aircraft for the first time in history.
Media interested in attending should contact Jan Wittry at jan.m.wittry-1@nasa.gov by
2 p.m. EDT on Monday, July 29.
These experiments are part of NASA's goal to stream very
high-bandwidth video and other data from deep space, enabling
future human missions beyond Earth orbit. In December, NASA
streamed a video featuring a cat named Taters back to Earth from
nearly 19 million miles away in deep space using NASA's laser
communications demonstration, marking a historic milestone.
About Laser
Communications
Historically, missions have relied on the use of radio waves to
exchange information to and from space. Now, NASA is embracing the
power of laser communications, also known as optical
communications, which uses infrared light rather than radio waves
to transmit more data at once.
As NASA explores the lunar surface with advanced science
instruments and captures high-definition data, researchers will
need faster ways to send large amounts of information to Earth.
Laser communications will accelerate the data transfer process and
enable 10 to 100 times more data transmitted back to Earth than
current radio frequency systems.
For more information on NASA, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
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