HOUSTON—NASA’s milestone-setting TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) mission—a two-year demonstration of low-Earth-orbit laser communications technologies—has come to a close. The mission’s achievements include the June 2023 transmission of 4.8 terabytes of error-free data in 5 min. at 200 gigabits...
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