Recently open a new
optical laser ground station in Spain on the island of Tenerife. Enhanced laser
system requires a significantly higher speed and quality of the data in the
interaction with spacecraft located outside our solar system. This system is ready
for operation after a series of crucial tests on the ground.
Laser system, which
transmits data in the infrared, can open the door to the future in the field of
reception of large amounts of information received from the spacecraft from
Earth orbit, and the orbit of Mars and other more distant planets.
As it turned out, such
a system is lighter, smaller in size and requires less energy consumption than
the radio system at the moment. They can cut costs and provide better
opportunities for new, useful studies in astronomy.
ESA's optical ground
station on Tenerife, will add two more of the same terminal in the United
States. Together they will transmit data at an unprecedented rate, by using the
infrared ray wavelength ranges similar to those used in fiber optic cables in
the world.
Later this year, ESA
observatory in Spain, plans to use the system to communicate with the
spacecraft LADEE, by which is now the new moon program.
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