The Deep Space Network is aging and needs to be replaced. Our ability to travel to Mars will depend on a reliable communications system. Can lasers do the trick?
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Psyche spacecraft: The laser beam fired from Psyche spacecraft, named after the asteroid, is part of a scientific mission that NASA launched in October this year to explore Psyche, a giant metal rich asteroid, about three times farther away from the Sun than is Earth.