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NASA's New Data Communication System Is Faster Than Your Internet, And It Works In Space

Currently, fiber optics are the fastest and most reliable medium for internet connectivity, providing consumers with data transfer speeds of up to 2 Gbps (gigabits per second). However, these transfer ...
PC Gamer

NASA's latest speed test logs its laser-based comms system at 25 Mbps—a connection speed usually good for online gaming—over 140 million miles through our solar system

Just don't look at the ping. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Lasers—pretty cool, eh? NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had ...
Nextgov

NASA projects could speed transmissions from the final frontier

While social-media mavens and space buffs thrilled to the first Tweets from outer space last week, NASA was working on the kind of network improvements that will be necessary if astronauts are to use ...

Track 3I/ATLAS in Real Time Using NASA's Interactive 'Eyes on the Solar System' App

NASA has unveiled a new way for the public to follow interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it moves through the solar system, integrating the object into its interactive Eyes on the Solar System app. The ...