NASA’s Artemis II moon mission shows space-to-Earth laser comms can scale
Tamara Ceaikovski
Earlier this month, NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts to orbit the moon and used new laser communications systems to beam dramatic images back to Earth. One of the receivers, though, wasn’t hosted by the U.S. space agency. A low-cost terminal built by the companies Observable Space and Quantum Opus, and operated by the Australian National University, pulled down data broadcast from a spacecraft at the moon at a rate of 260 megabits per second. That success proves that high-
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