The Daily Beam - Nov 23rd, 2023
 
 
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November 23, 2023
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On November 14th, NASA’s DSOC experiment, which hitched a ride on the side of the Psyche spacecraft, just beamed down its first laser comms experiment from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away—roughly 40x farther than the Moon is from Earth—to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in California.
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