NASA receives laser beam from 10 million miles away: 'First light'
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NASA has beamed a near-infrared laser nearly 10 million miles into space breaking new ground for the agency.
The laser, which is encoded with test data, was fired from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft and then sent back to Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, the agency said. Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
The test data was transmitted about 40 times farther than the distance between the moon and the earth, which NASA says is about 238,900 miles. The SpaceX Starship, for context, traveled around 93 miles into space last week. You can send tips to michael.dorgan@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @M_Dorgan.
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