The Need for Speed - NASA's Move from Radios to Lasers

For over 60 years, NASA has been sending spacecraft on missions near the earth and to the farthest reaches of our solar system equipped with traditional radio frequency transceivers. Next year that is all about to change. Technology demonstration missions are soon to be launched that will finally place laser communication systems on orbit and in to deep space. Join NASA Ambassador Jim Porter to discover what scientists and engineers have developed for the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) mission including new high-bandwidth communications hardware, offering from 10 to 100 times the data transfer rates of our current satellites.
Jim Porter, K2NAX, has worked as an aerospace engineer at several NASA locations, most recently the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.
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