{"id":48840,"date":"2025-07-11T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-reports-europes-first-deep-space-optical-communications-link\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:28:00","slug":"esa-reports-europes-first-deep-space-optical-communications-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-reports-europes-first-deep-space-optical-communications-link\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Reports Europe\u2019s First Deep-Space Optical Communications Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <b>European Space Agency<\/b> (ESA) recently demonstrated the first deep-space optical communication with a European ground segment, communicating with <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard the Psyche mission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ESA detailed the demonstration that took place on July 7 in which a ground laser transmitter at the Kryoneri Observatory in Greece sent a beacon to the Psyche spacecraft, 265 million km away. The return signal was captured by a ground laser receiver at the Helmos Observatory in Greece.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnabling this two-way optical handshake meant overcoming two major technical challenges: developing a laser powerful enough to hit a distant spacecraft with pinpoint accuracy; and building a receiver sensitive enough to detect the faintest return signal, sometimes just a few photons, after a journey of hundreds of millions of kilometers,\u201d explains Sinda Mejri, project manager of the ESA\u2019s Ground Laser Receiver system.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration was the result of work on interoperability between ESA and NASA in optical communications, which ESA notes was previously only achieved with radio frequency systems.<\/p>\n<p>The deep-space optical communication demonstration is a \u201cleap step towards bringing terrestrial internet-like high-speed connectivity to our deep-space spacecraft,\u201d commented Rolf Densing, ESA\u2019s director of operations.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, NASA demonstrated optical data transmission in deep space over a more than 200 km distance with DSOC experiment on board Psyche working with CACI International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) recently demonstrated the first deep-space optical communication with a European ground segment, communicating with NASA\u2019s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard the Psyche mission.&nbsp; ESA detailed the demonstration that took place on July 7 in which a ground laser transmitter at the Kryoneri Observatory in Greece sent a beacon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48841,"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-48840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48840"}],"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=48840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}