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Laser on NASA's Psyche asteroid probe beams data from 140 million miles away (www.space.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Okay, that's really cool and 25 megabits per second is actually very good compared to what they get back from other probes. At speeds like that, they could send back 4k pictures, which would be extremely high resolution for craft like this.