{"id":21914,"date":"2023-08-13T19:35:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T11:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasas-psyche-asteroid-mission-to-test-deep-space-laser-communications\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T19:35:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T11:35:42","slug":"nasas-psyche-asteroid-mission-to-test-deep-space-laser-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasas-psyche-asteroid-mission-to-test-deep-space-laser-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Psyche asteroid mission to test deep space laser communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/08\/2_hale-telescope-caltech-2.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/08\/2_hale-telescope-caltech-2.jpg 1330w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/08\/2_hale-telescope-caltech-2.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/08\/2_hale-telescope-caltech-2.jpg?resize=768,433 768w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/08\/2_hale-telescope-caltech-2.jpg?resize=1024,577 1024w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/08\/2_hale-telescope-caltech-2.jpg?resize=350,197 350w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/08\/2_hale-telescope-caltech-2.jpg?resize=140,79 140w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/08\/2_hale-telescope-caltech-2.jpg?resize=150,85 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Hale Telescope at Caltech\u2019s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. Image: Caltech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The transmitted laser light, traveling over 200 million miles, presents a challenge in extracting information from faint signals, requiring novel signal-processing techniques.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the project faces the additional challenge of compensating for the increasing lag in data transmission as the distance between Psyche and Earth grows, potentially resulting in a lag of up to tens of minutes. The dynamic positions of Earth and the spacecraft need to be constantly accounted for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although hosted by the Psyche spacecraft, DSOC\u2019s success will be evaluated independently of the Psyche mission. The technology demonstration will span nearly two years after the spacecraft\u2019s launch, all the way to its Mars flyby in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the increasing complexity of science data, images, and video expected from deep space missions, NASA hopes to advance technologies like DSOC for eventual routine use by future spacecraft and ground systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASA is setting its sights to support humanity\u2019s next giant leap \u2013 sending astronauts to Mars \u2013 by expanding the possibilities of broadband communications in space. Moreover, the Psyche mission\u2019s journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid in hopes to expose the nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of our solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hale Telescope at Caltech\u2019s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. Image: Caltech The transmitted laser light, traveling over 200 million miles, presents a challenge in extracting information from faint signals, requiring novel signal-processing techniques.&nbsp; However, the project faces the additional challenge of compensating for the increasing lag in data transmission as the distance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}