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NASA uses laser to send video of a cat named Taters over 19 million miles (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (13 children)

What strikes me is not the bandwidth achieved but the precision of the technology to aim the laser. 19 million miles is a great distance to successfully aim a beam of light. As this technology develops, real time communications with objects in orbit like around Mars will be possible.

[–] gens@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago

The beam is reeeealy wide by the time it gets there. Still a great achivement, though.

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