NASA has confirmed a significant milestone for its Psyche spacecraft's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment. This technology demonstration aims to test laser-based data links beyond the.
NASA's DSOC experiment passed yet another milestone, interfacing with the Psyche spacecraft and beaming data back to Earth from 140 million miles away.
NASA named its asteroid space mission Psyche because the asteroid is believed to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet. Psyche is a unique and valuable target for study, as it could provide scientists with insights into the formation of early planets.