Earth recently received a laser transmission from a record-breaking 140 million miles away. The development could present major consequences for the future of space travel, according to a recent report by NASA.
While this transmission seems like it could be extraterrestrial in origin, it is not. The transmission was sent from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is located around 1.5 times the distance between Earth and the Sun.
This breakthrough was achieved by using a Psyche feature called Deep Space Optical Communications, per the New York Post. The primary objective of the project is to investigate the metal asteroid known as 16 Psyche in the hopes of discovering gems.
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The asteroid is expected to be around four billion miles away.
Meera Srinivasan — the project’s operations lead at NASA’s
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