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NASA develops integrated-photonics modem for International Space Station


NASA develops integrated-photonics modem for International Space Station A NASA team is scheduled to test the space agency’s first integrated photonics modem aboard the International Space Station in 2020. The device, about the size of a mobile phone, incorporates lasers and switches onto a microchip, will use lasers to encode and transmit data at rates 10 to 100 times faster than today’s communications equipment. Radio communications have some serious limitations. The radio spectrum is only one small interference-prone slice of the larger electromagnetic spectrum, and it can only offer relatively slow data rates.    More



(Source: Daily Star Gazette - Feb 2)

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