NASA's Laser Communications Tech, Science Experiment Safely in Space
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The payloads launched aboard the Space Test Program Satellite-6 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocketfrom Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as part of the U.S. Space Force's Space Test Program 3 mission.
Key Points:
- The payloads launched aboard the Space Test Program Satellite-6 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocketfrom Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as part of the U.S. Space Force's Space Test Program 3 mission.
- "This launch introduces an exciting new technology for space missions," said Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
- NASA's LCRD will demonstrate the benefits of space-to-ground laser communications, also called optical communications.
- LCRD is funded and managed through NASA's Technology Demonstration Missions program, part of the Space Technology Mission Directorate, and the Space Communications and Navigation program at NASA Headquarters.