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CTOnews.com, November 17 (Xinhua)-- NASA recently officially launched the Deep Space Optical Communication (DSOC) project, launching the "first beam of light" on November 14, the first time to achieve communication beyond the distance between the earth and the moon by laser.

On December 8, 2022, NASA's Psyche spacecraft is on display in the clean room of the Astrotech space operations facility near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. You can see DSOC's Golden Top Flying Laser Transceiver, near the center, connected to the spacecraft. NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) is currently about 1000 million miles (16 million kilometers) from Earth, or 40 times the distance between the Earth and the moon, and the "first beam of light" travels such a long distance to the Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory at the California Institute of Technology in San Diego County, California.

DSOC launched aboard the recently launched Psyche spacecraft, the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and plans a two-year scientific mission to test the transmission of high-bandwidth test data to Earth. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California manages DSOC and Psyche. The video attached to CTOnews.com is as follows:

DSOC emitted its first beam of light in the early hours of November 14 after its flying transceiver, a cutting-edge instrument on the Psyche capable of sending and receiving near infrared signals, had locked the uplink laser beacon, which was launched from the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at the JPL Table Mountain facility.

Uplink beacons help transceivers target their downlink lasers at Palomar, while automation systems on transceivers and ground stations fine-tune their direction.

"achieving the first dawn is one of the many key milestones for DSOC in the coming months, paving the way for higher data-rate communications capable of sending scientific messages, high-definition images and streaming videos to support the next big leap forward for mankind: sending humans to Mars," said Trudy Kortes, director of technical presentations at NASA headquarters in Washington.

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