Send and receive a laser message from a distance of 16 million kilometers in less than one minute!

One An innovative experience Ha NASA achieved with success. The space agency sent a laser beam message to Earth from about 10 million miles away away within 50 seconds!

Demonstrating this technology could help her one day NASA To explore Deeper into space It reveals more about the origin of the universe.

spaceship vessel The Psyche rover, which launched in mid-October, is on track to take its first look between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft will spend the next six years traveling about 3.6 billion kilometers to reach the outer part of the main asteroid belt.

Alongside this is the experimental optical technology system Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOCWhich performs its special mission during the first two years of the flight.

Laser can be sent Data is 10 to 100 times faster from Traditional systems radio waves NASA uses it for other missions, according to NASA CNN.

If successful, over the next two years, this experiment could form the future foundation of the technology It will be used to Communicate with humans to explore Mars.

DSOC has now achieved the first successful transmission and reception of its first data.

The experiment shot a data-encoded laser farther than the Moon for the first time. Test data sent by A distance of approximately 16 million kilometers And they arrived Hale telescope Palomar Observatory of the California Institute of Technology.

It was the distance between DSOC and Hill About 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth.

While DSOC It does not send scientific data Collected from Psycho spaceshipSince it is an experiment, a laser will be used in this Submit test data encrypted To laser photons, or to quantum light particles.

Detectors on the ground will They can receive the signal from Psyche And yes Data extraction from photons. This type of visual communication can change the way people communicate NASA sends And It receives data from its deep space missions.

“Visual contact is one pond to Scientists And the Researchers who want more from space missions Them I will allow Human exploration of deep spacesaid Jason Mitchell, director of the Advanced Communications and Navigation Technologies Division in NASA’s Communications and Astronautics Program. “More data means more discoveries“, points out the scientist.