NASA introduces the new communication system for its newly manned mission Artemis-II. This new communication system O2O will be based on the infrared laser system. The new moon mission will take four astronauts to the moon and will be equipped with new communication technology.
NASA build the O2O “Orion Artemis 2 Optical Communication System which will connect the Artemis-II crew members to the NASA Mission control center in, Houston. Astronomers and researchers build this communication system to replace their old-age radio system.
The main idea behind building this communication system is to provide high-definition of videos and high-resolution images from the moon to NASA’s mission control system in Houston. The laser-based communication system is used in the quantum computing system.
What is NASA’s New O2O Communication System?
NASA’s Astronomers and engineers spent many years developing it. NASA’s O2O contains a small, 4-inch telescope and a modem for processing data, components that have already undergone rigorous testing on a “ shaker table” and in vacuum chambers. The modem turns raw computer data into light patterns and vice-versa.
Crew members will use this infrared communication system to receive the information and transmit the experimental results and they will broadcast the images and videos themselves to the earth-based internet.
The highly technological device has the capability to transmit the equivalent of about 30 streaming HD movies at one time.
NASA project manager Steven Horowitz in a press release said that “ “The idea is to have high-definition video transmissions to and from the Moon over laser links, “If you recall the images from the Apollo mission, they were grainy and difficult to see, but O2O will allow Artemis astronauts to send videos and images significantly more vivid and detailed.”
The Chronology of NASA’s Develop the Laser Communication System?
The first time NASA build the laser communication system in 2013. It was the soda-can-shaped Lunar Atmosphere Dust and Environment Explorer (LADEE) that flew to the moon and transmitted back to the Earth using lasers.
At NASA’s White Sands Complex in Las Cruces, New Mexico small robotic craft connected by laser to ground sent high-definition video streams to and from the moon
In 2014 and 2017 the International Space International systems hosted an OPALS (The Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science) that laser-communicated with Earth, beginning with an HD stream that said “Hello World”!
NASA also launched a handful of small laser satellites sending and receiving stations. To avoid cloud cover NASA has built facilities (which resemble small observations) in Hawaii, California, and New Mexico, where telescopes pinpoint the near-infrared light.
If you think the future will be laser-based technology so you are wrong because fiber optics will still be used in the future.
Laser-based technology requires satellites for the transmission of messages.