NASA Advances Optical Comms For Human Deep Space Exploration

Mark Carreau September 26, 2024

The Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System, or O2O.

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA’s milestone-setting TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) mission—a two-year demonstration of low-Earth-orbit laser communications technologies—has come to a close. The mission’s achievements include the June 2023 transmission of 4.8 terabytes of error-free data in 5 min. at 200 gigabits...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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