The space agency is seeking more efficient ways of communicating with spacecraft as it prepares for future missions to the Moon and Mars.
, it seriously needs to work on its communication skills. Upgrading from radio frequency transmissions to laser communication would be akin to switching from dial-up to high-speed internet, according to NASA. “TBIRD is a game changer and will be very important for future human exploration and science missions,” Andreas Doulaveris, TBIRD’s mission systems engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a statement.
and it was integrated into a CubeSat—the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3—that’sdevice was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington and funded by NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program.
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