October 15, 2015 10:00 pm
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Asteroid Impact Mission Sets Sights On New Laser Communications Record
Zothecula writes: Laser-based communications has the ability to beam enormous amounts of data at high speed, but the use of this technology in space is still in its infancy. To help push things along, ESA's proposed Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) will carry out a record-setting demonstration of space laser communications across a distance of 75 million kilometers (46 million mi) while orbiting a binary asteroid.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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