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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration has successfully concluded after two years,...
Mark Nurge, a physicist in Kennedy Space Center’s Applied Physics Lab, stands near a laser interferometer, which is...
S123-E-008424 (23 March 2008) --- Astronaut Mike Foreman, STS-123 mission specialist, helps to tie down the Orbiter...
Mark Nurge, a physicist in Kennedy Space Center’s Applied Physics Lab, stands near a laser interferometer, which is...
Mark Nurge, a physicist in Kennedy Space Center’s Applied Physics Lab, stands near a laser interferometer, which is...
B-roll for media and public use. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment marked a historic...
A 3 mm-diameter droplet of aluminum oxide, heated to 2371 deg. C (4,300 deg. F), is suspended in midair by six...
Scheduled to launch on Oct. 5, 2023, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Psyche mission is a journey to...
At left is NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The annotation shows where spacesuit materials can be found attached to a...
NASA's Psyche spacecraft is captured here on August 18, 2021, in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion...
How might lasers revolutionize deep space communications? NASA will test high-bandwidth laser (or optical)...
Our SpaceX Crew-6 mission safely returns to Earth, the tech demo hitching a ride on our Psyche spacecraft, and...