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Asteroid Psyche is worth $10,000-quadrillion for whoever can mine it
Meandering between Mars and Jupiter, an asteroid named Psyche holds an estimated worth of a staggering $10,000 quadrillion.
NASA’s Laser Sends Data 290 Million Miles to Psyche, Revolutionizing Deep Space Messaging
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones, culminating in sending a signal to ...
'Significant' space breakthrough made as NASA receives signal from 290 million miles away
A laser signal was successfully sent from Earth to the space tech about 290 million miles away, a massive game changer in the ...
NASA laser-based data transmission demonstrates serviceable internet 290 million miles from Earth
In late July, the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) transmitted laser data across 290 million miles from the Psyche ...
NASA can now talk to its spacecraft using lasers
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications test has completed its first phase, showing that laser communications in space are possible and faster than radio.
Laser fired 290,000,000 miles into space could help contact life outside Earth
The American space agency explains that by transporting data at rates up to 100 times higher than radio frequencies, lasers ...
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Laser Message Sent 460 Million Kilometers – Further Than Mars – To NASA's Psyche
The Psyche mission is on its way to study the metallic asteroid of the same name, and on its journey, continues to test the communication system of the future. Laser light was sent from Earth to ...
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Earth's new mini-moon belongs to a group of promising targets for future asteroid miners trying to send humans on deep-space missions
Take Psyche, for example, an asteroid that NASA is sending a spacecraft to for scientific study, since the agency believes it to be the core of a long-dead planet. Psyche's metal-rich makeup ...
Topic: asteroid
The asteroid Dimorphos had its 12-hour orbit shortened by a half-hour. Shortly after 7 pm EST, the DART spacecraft will smack ...
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Spacecraft on its way to investigate asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock ...