LaserBeamed

Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA recently demonstrated a key piece of tech that could help, beaming messages via laser across a distance of almost 16 million kilometers (10 million miles). That's about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth, and the accomplishment, achieved in November 2023, represented the first time that optical communications have been sent across such a distance. Traditionally, we use radio waves to talk to distant spacecraft – but higher…

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, currently en route to the asteroid Psyche, has successfully transmitted a laser-beamed message to Earth from a record-breaking distance beyond the Moon. It sent a laser-beamed message from 10 million miles or 16 million kilometres away…

Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA just demonstrated a key piece of tech that could help, beaming messages via laser across a distance of almost 16 million kilometers or 10 million miles.That's about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth, and it's the first time that optical communications have been sent across such a distance.Traditionally, we use radio waves to talk to distant spacecraft – but higher frequencies of light, such as near infrared, offer an…