Psyche Spacecraft Breaks a First! A Laser Message was Transmitted to Earth from 225 Million Kilometers in Space!
Psyche is an orbiter launched by NASA in October 2023.
The Psyche spacecraft, which was launched to explore the origin of planetary cores by orbiting and examining the metal asteroid 16 Psyche, is equipped with 'Deep Space Optical Communication Technology' developed by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
A first was achieved with the deep space communication technology in NASA's Psyche spacecraft.
Previously, NASA used only radio waves to communicate with missions that went beyond Earth. But in April, NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications Transceiver aboard the Psyche spacecraft successfully transmitted from a distance of 140 million miles (225 million kilometers), equivalent to 1.5 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
According to NASA, this success could pave the way for future missions to Mars!
The Psyche spacecraft, launched in 2023, proves its ability to transmit messages from deep space using lasers, marking an important achievement for the scientific world. This achievement could pave the way for future spacecraft to use optical communications.
Laser was used for the first time: The laser message transmitted to Earth from 225 million kilometers away by the Psyche spacecraft's Deep Space Optical Communication transceiver may be a pioneer of technological developments.
