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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Comm Demo Sends, Receives First Data - NASA (www.nasa.gov)
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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

That is super cool! Reminds me of just how big our solar system is, when even light takes 20 minutes to reach home. (Elite Dangerous did such a good job of illustrating just how large our galaxy is, too!)