NASA’s Record-Breaking Laser Demo Completes Mission

NASAs TBIRD TeraByte InfraRed Delivery demonstration and its host spacecraft the PTD-3 Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-3 have completed their technology demonstration. The TBIRD payload spent the past two years breaking world records for the fastest satellite downlink from space using laser communications. NASAs PTD series leverages a common commercial spacecraft to provide a robust 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/direc...
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