NASA Just Received Laser Message Beamed From A Colossal 226 Million Kilometers Away

NASA’s Psyche mission is on its way to study a peculiar asteroid and during its cruise, the mission team has been testing a new communication system. The new approach doesn’t use radio waves but an infrared laser and it has now shown that it works successfully from the most distant place yet. Psyche was 226 million kilometers (140 million miles) from Earth when the message was sent. That’s 1.5 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Psyche was …