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How might lasers revolutionize deep space communications? NASA will test high-bandwidth laser (or optical)...
B-roll for media and public use. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment marked a historic...
Dr. von Braun and party look at a laser beam component during a visit at the Marshall Space Flight Center Space...
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration has successfully concluded after two years,...
Marshall Space Flight Center’s (MSFC) director, Dr. Wernher von Braun (right), inspects a component of a laser...
The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 is slated to launch in September to measure the height of Earth’s...
Powered by a laser beam directed at it from a center pedestal, a lightweight model plane makes the first flight of...
With a laser beam centered on its panel of photovoltaic cells, a lightweight model plane makes the first flight of...
S117-E-06953 (10 June 2007) --- Astronaut John "Danny" Olivas, STS-117 mission specialist, aims a laser range finder...
Goddard's Laser Ranging Facility directs a laser toward the Lunar Reconassaince Orbiter on International Observe the...
Scientists from NASA's Space Geodesy Project discuss the techniques they use to precisely measure the Earth's...
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 551 rocket successfully launched from Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Space...
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 551 rocket successfully launched from Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Space...
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 551 rocket successfully launched from Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Space...
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 551 rocket successfully launched from Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Space...
Our Webb Space Telescope’s new look at an exploded star, teams prepare to install some Moon rocket hardware, and...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...
Adam Wroblewski p A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver is shown at NASA's...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver can be easily...
This frame from an animated GIF shows Earth moon moving below NASA OPALS laser instrument as seen by a robotic...
The United Launch Alliance Delta II first stage is lifted to vertical on the stand at Space Launch Complex 2 on June...