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- Title
Lasers boost space communications.
- Authors
Powell, Devin
- Abstract
The article focuses on use of laser beams in spacecrafts to transmit signals. Two spacecrafts, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Alphasat from European Satellite Agency are launched on Spetember 5 and July 25, 2013 respectively. These spacecrafts will have laser beams to transmit data in high volume and speed. Earlier spacecrafts such as Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used radio waves to transmit data.
- Subjects
SPACE vehicles; UNITED States. National Aeronautics &; Space Administration; EUROPEAN Space Agency; LASER beams; MARS Reconnaissance Orbiter (Spacecraft); RADIO waves
- Publication
Nature, 2013, Vol 499, Issue 7458, p266
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/499266a