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This is still the laser's primary mission.
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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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And an optical mission to test laser relay capabilities from earth geosynchronous (GEO) orbit will soon follow.
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"It's not any normal kind of entertainment, " said student Kelly Tsang, after she and four friends failed to break free from Dr. Alpha's Laboratory, which featured a "Mission Impossible" style laser maze.
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Having demonstrated the success of the transmission, NASA will considering using laser communications with its next major Lunar mission.
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In addition to the success of Mission: Impossible, we made progress toward introducing best-in-class laser based projection technology, and grew our commercial network by 33%, installing a record 170 IMAX theatre systems.
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The "Mona Lisa" experiment was transmitted at a slow data rate of about 300 bits per second, but the "pathfinding achievement sets the stage for ... high data rate laser-communication demonstrations that will be a central feature of NASA's next moon mission, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, " said Goddard's Richard Vondrak, the orbiter's deputy project scientist.
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