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.
In a supplemental appendix, the USSS cited the increasing diversity of the criminal underground, with bad actors clustering around Internet Relay Channels (IRC), Internet-based chat rooms, or Web-based forums.
As well as finishing fourth in the heptathlon at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the Birmingham-based athlete also claimed a fifth-placed finish in the women's 4x400m relay.