To: KevinDavis
The spacecraft will communicate with Earth via two radio bands and a new optical communications terminal, which will demonstrate the use of a near-infrared laser beam for interplanetary communications. Wow. LaserComm to Mars. That is something. The comm bandwidth should be spectacular. Like having a fiber optic line from Earth to the Red Planet.
Now if only we had someone there to talk to.
To: InterceptPoint; All
This will be very good when humans go to Mars..
18 posted on
05/05/2005 7:35:19 PM PDT by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: InterceptPoint
How's about we name it MarsLink?
To: InterceptPoint
"Now if only we had someone there to talk to."
23 posted on
05/05/2005 7:40:44 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier!)
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