and 267 Mbps, which is comparable to broadband internet download speeds. The team was able to download a total of 1.3 terabits of data during that time. As a comparison, NASA's Magellan mission to ...

Last week Elon Musk said in one of his 100-plus daily tweets that “This is just a very basic first step. Earth and Mars will ultimately need greater than petabit/sec connectivity.” Petabit/second ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communication (DSOC ... away from Earth it managed data transfer rates of 25 Mbps. On June 24, at 240 million miles (390 million kilometers), the demonstration achieved ...