Spaceflight 🚀<p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> 📆 July 12, 2023 <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DSS23" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DSS23</span></a> started in 📆 February 2021 at the Goldstone, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DSN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DSN</span></a> Complex (with <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/OpticalCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpticalCommunication</span></a><br>capabilities, which will be critical to communicate with <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/astronauts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronauts</span></a> 👨🚀👩🚀 traveling to <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> 🔴). NASA cannot use <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RadioFrequency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFrequency</span></a> communications to carry higher data rates like those required for Mars without increasing<br>the size of its antennas 📡 or power of its radio transmitters. Therefore, the Agency is developing <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/optical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optical</span></a> communications (use<br>of light as a means of transmitting information through <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/lasers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lasers</span></a>) <a href="https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-23-016.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-23-016.pd</span><span class="invisible">f</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DSOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DSOC</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DeepSpaceNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSpaceNetwork</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SpaceCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceCommunication</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LaserCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaserCommunication</span></a></p><p>Pictures : <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breaking_ground_on_Goldstone_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil</span><span class="invisible">e:Breaking_ground_on_Goldstone_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex.jpg</span></a> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lcrd_new.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil</span><span class="invisible">e:Lcrd_new.jpg</span></a></p>