{"id":262491,"date":"2023-11-22T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=316689"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:36:08","slug":"the-earth-receives-a-message-sent-by-laser-from-16-million-kilometers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-earth-receives-a-message-sent-by-laser-from-16-million-kilometers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earth receives a message sent by laser from 16 million kilometers away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Having Internet on Earth is fine, but wouldn’t it be cool to have Internet on future space trips<\/strong>? Yes, most likely none of us will live to see it, but that doesn’t stop NASA<\/a> <\/strong>from already laying the groundwork so that our children or our children’s children can communicate with Earth millions of kilometers away<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A few days ago, the US space agency successfully tested space laser communication for the first time<\/a>, managing to transmit a message across a distance of 16 million kilometers<\/strong>. This is no small feat; it’s a distance 40 times greater than the one between the Moon and Earth, marking the first instance of optical communications being sent across such a vast distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While radio waves have historically been used to communicate with distant spacecraft<\/a>, higher-frequency light waves, like near-infrared, offer a broader bandwidth and a substantial increase in data transmission speed<\/strong>. This technology could be what we need to communicate with future bases on Mars without experiencing significant lag<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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