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Asteroid Impact Mission Sets Sights On New Laser Communications Record (esa.int)

Posted by timothy on from the cheaper-than-that-much-wire dept.

Zothecula writes: Laser-based communications has the ability to beam enormous amounts of data at high speed, but the use of this technology in space is still in its infancy. To help push things along, ESA's proposed Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) will carry out a record-setting demonstration of space laser communications across a distance of 75 million kilometers (46 million mi) while orbiting a binary asteroid.

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  1. SETI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This technology is in its infancy, but imagine it in widespread use, and later in exclusive use, and then you'll understand why SETI doesn't detect anything.