Next year, NASA is to launch a demonstration mission to test optical laser communications in conjunction with the LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) mission to the moon.

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Going forward, the LLCD will play a vital part in NASA's 2017 Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, a key test of laser-based relay comms in future missions.

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Professionally, it was a reminder that, for all that companies may be learning in terms of crisis communications, there are still situations that sorely test those evolving skills.

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If Dr. Wang's previous studies are any indication, he will see that a test subject's striatum, a sort of communications hub inside the brain, has fewer dopamine receptors than the striatum of someone with normal eating habits.

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In the Trafalgar test mission, mission planning and targeting data was provided via satellite communications from the Royal Navy's operational headquarters at Northwood, north west London.

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These cars are test vehicles in General Motors' effort to develop vehicle-to-vehicle communications systems.

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