SpaceResearch brief
Why NASA plans to connect Orion through Starlink lasers.
Two planned laser terminals would connect Orion to a commercial relay network. The useful question is how much data gets home during a usable link.
FIELD 05
Space.
Follow the information path as well as the spacecraft. Compare useful data delivery, signal delay and real operating constraints.
START WITH THE FUNDAMENTALS
Space laser communications: more data, the same speed of light.
A higher-rate optical link can deliver more information during a contact window while the signal still faces the same basic travel-time limit.
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