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NASA uses laser link to beam data 140 million miles across space at 25 Mbps (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Mango -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's definitely not 140m miles away after just a year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Actually, it is! Space motion isn't straightforward. Here's another article that has a diagram indicating the relative positions.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-optical-comms-demo-transmits-data-over-140-million-miles

[–] Mango 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow thanks! I did not have the perspective for the distance. I figured that was Voyager 1 kind of numbers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Voyager 1 is in the neighborhood of 15b miles from earth!

[–] Mango 2 points 7 months ago

Hot damn