Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD)
December 10 , 2021
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- NASA launched it’s first-ever laser communications system
- It will be in a geosynchronous orbit, over 35,000km above Earth.
- LCRD will showcase the unique capabilities of optical communications in space.
- Optical communications will help increase the bandwidth 10 to 100 times more than radio frequency systems.
- LCRD will send data to Earth at 1.2 Gbps using infrared lasers.
- LCRD is NASA’s first two-way, end-to-end optical relay.
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