{"id":7116,"date":"2012-10-14T14:25:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T19:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2012-10-20T19:48:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T00:48:58","slug":"nasa-to-demonstrate-communications-via-laser-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7116","title":{"rendered":"NASA to Demonstrate Communications Via Laser Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It currently takes 90 minutes to transmit high-resolution images from Mars, but NASA would like to dramatically reduce that time to just minutes. A new optical communications system that NASA plans to demonstrate in 2016 will lead the way and even allow the streaming of high-definition video from distances beyond the Moon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/technology\/features\/laser-comm.html\">NASA &#8211; NASA to Demonstrate Communications Via Laser Beam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The LCRD is the next step in that direction, Israel said, likening the emerging capability to land-based fiber-optic systems, such as Verizon&#8217;s FiOS network. &#8220;In a sense, we&#8217;re moving FiOS to space.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It currently takes 90 minutes to transmit high-resolution images from Mars, but NASA would like to dramatically reduce that time to just minutes. A new optical communications system that NASA plans to demonstrate in 2016 will lead the way and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7116\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[899,513,196,881],"class_list":["post-7116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","tag-dsn","tag-nasa","tag-optical-networks","tag-physical-layer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7813,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions\/7813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}