[Laser] Re: MIT-NASA team to test first interplanetary laser comms

[Tim Toast]

Mars gets DSL!
I don't know the exact numbers but it looks like it
will be like going from a dial-up connection to DSL or
Cable rates+ to put it in internet lingo... If i was
on mars i'd want broadband for sure :-)
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"The expected data rate varies depending on Mars's
position in its orbit, the weather and atmospheric
conditions on Earth, and whether reception is
occurring in daytime or nighttime. When Mars is at its
farthest point from Earth and the reception is
occurring during daytime, the team expects to receive
data at a rate of a million bits per second, but when
Mars is at its closest approach and reception is at
night, the rate could be thirty times higher. Today,
the maximum data rate transmitted to Earth by
spacecraft at Mars is about 128,000 bits per second
(for NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft)..."
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Tim Toast
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