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The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver can be easily...
View of the Glenn Research Center Hangar from the Cleveland Hopkins Airport Runway during a testing flight on June...
Aerial Photograph of Glenn Research Center With Downtown Cleveland in the Distance taken from the PC-12 on June 13,...
At Glenn Research Center, the PC-12 is Prepped for a flight and ready to takeoff on June 12, 2024. A team at NASA’s...
This infrared photograph shows the uplink laser beacon for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)...
Equipping the space station to produce more power, our newest experimental X-plane, and preparing to test a new...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration has successfully concluded after two years,...
Two sets of laser pulses transmitted from Earth to a spacecraft over a distance of 1.4 million kilometers 870,000...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...
Kurt Blankenship and James Demers Fly PC-12 Aircraft During Testing on June 13, 2024. A team at NASA’s Glenn...
NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE, arrived last month. Workers completed prelaunch testing and then...
This illustration depicts a concept for operation of an optical communications system on NASA Mars...
jsc2022e087163 (11/16/2022) --- Secure Laser Communications between International Space Station and Ground Station...
Shown here is a prototype of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, ground receiver detector built by the...
S65-61777 (8 Dec. 1965) --- Close-up view of a laser transmitter unit which is being used for the Gemini-7 Optical...
S65-42598 (10 Nov. 1965) --- Douglas S. Idlly, Electromagnetic Systems Branch, Instrumentation and Electronic...
jsc2023e064876 (10/19/2023) --- NASA’s laser communications demonstration roadmap. ILLUMA-T demonstrates two...
jsc2023e064875 (10/19/2023) --- Artistic depiction of ILLUMA-T communicating to LCRD over laser links. ILLUMA-T...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, Friday, Oct....
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is seen at Launch Complex 39A as preparations...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, Friday, Oct....
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is seen at Launch Complex 39A as preparations...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is seen at Launch Complex 39A as preparations...