NASA's latest speed test logs its laser-based comms system at 25 Mbps—a connection speed usually good for online gaming—over 140 million miles through …
The Psyche craft was able to send and receive information from NASA JPL's high-power uplink laser facility in Wrightwood, ...
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NASA Space Laser Beams Home Data From 140 Million Miles Away
The agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) equipped Psyche with a brand-new kind of laser communication array, and this ...
NASA Map Reveals How Much Water Earth's Rivers Hold
The Colorado River basin was flagged as a region depleted due to heavy water use, as was the Amazon in South America.
Launch date set for NASA's PREFIRE mission to study polar energy loss
NASA and Rocket Lab are targeting no earlier than Wednesday, May 22, 2024, for the first of two launches of the agency's ...
How 'tiger stripes' on Saturn's moon Enceladus hint at habitability: Study
The study's author explains how understanding Enceladus' expulsions is instrumental to understanding the potential ...
NASA says JPL’s Mars rocks return program is too costly; leaders want ‘revised plan’
Amid congressional uncertainty and cuts, JPL’s $11 billion plan to get Mars rocks back to Earth was too much for NASA ...
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NASA And ESA Prepare For Close Approach Of Near Earth Object Apophis
N ASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are preparing for the close approach of near-Earth object, asteroid 99942 Apophis.
Space laser transmission strikes Earth from 140 million miles away: NASA
Earth just received a laser transmission from a world (and perhaps universe) record-breaking 140 million miles away -- which ...
Study provides new global accounting of Earth's rivers
A study led by NASA researchers provides new estimates of how much water courses through Earth's rivers, the rates at which ...
Martian Methane Baffles Scientists: Curiosity Rover’s Surprising Discovery
A recent paper may help explain why a portable chemistry lab on NASA’s Curiosity rover has continually sniffed out traces of ...
Nasa’s planned mission to retrieve rocks from Mars is in trouble – but it’s a vital step to sending humans to the red planet
Missions in space are dangerous, with astronauts unable to rely on mission control over 100 million miles away. Any attempt ...