The "Mona Lisa" experiment was transmitted at a slow datarate of about 300 bits per second, but the "pathfinding achievement sets the stage for ... high datarate 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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