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NASA fired its space lasers to communicate with the ISS


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The feat demonstrates that the space agency could provide live coverage of a Moon landing during the Artemis missions and bodes well for the development of optical communications that could connect humans to Mars and beyond. Engineers fitted an airplane with a portable laser terminal, then it flew over Lake Erie and sent data back to the center in Cleveland. Although Artemis missions have been delayed, the fourth one that takes humans back to the Moon is still on track for 2028.

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