European Space Agency, ESA 282d ago

This summer, we pulled off something historic: four successful laser links with NASA's Psyche spacecraft — over 300 million kilometres away. From mountaintops in Greece, our team fired laser beams across the Solar System, caught signals just a few photons strong, and even received… a cat video. Yes, the first-ever interplanetary cat chasing a laser! Why does it matter? Because optical communications can one day send huge amounts of data across deep space at lightning speed — from Mars missions to telescopes at the edge of the Solar System. Europe has now shown it’s ready to support the future of deep-space laser communications. And that future looks brighter than ever. 📹 European Space Agency (ESA) 📸 ESA, National Observatory of Athens - NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU - NASA/JPL-Caltech #ESA #Space #DeepSpace