We’re still limited by the speed of light but this makes things a little more high fidelity. Hope they get some practical application satellites on the test stands soon.
When we return to the Moon and place our first footsteps on Mars
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Oh good...we can spread our earthly troubles to other planetary bodies.
“The DSN is already being pushed to its data limits”
That’s cuz itz ridiculously out of date, like 1553 data buses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_parametric_oscillator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_parametric_amplifier
Still trying to figure out how they minimize laser spread and thus signal loss over very long distances. When you bounce a laser off the retroreflectors on the moon you are detecting individual photons rather than a continuous signal. When I was in grad school I had a professor who was working on a laser with a axial distribution that was a Bessel function squared rather than Gaussian because it would reduce spread.
This is just the technology that Biden has needed to convert his rambling (dispersed?) speeches & conversations to coherent thoughts and language...