Important Innovations

  D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF                By Journalists Edward  Kane & Marya nne Kane NASA'S LASER BEAM MESSAGE FROM FAR IN SPACE                                                                                Source:  Stock & NASA NASA, using the Psyche Spacecraft, just laser beamed a message from 10 million miles deep in space to Caltech's Hale Telescope.  Here's why this is so important: This laser beamed message is a world first NASA calls it a "major scientific breakthrough of receiving first light" The transmission is the first optical communications from beyond the Earth Moon system Transmission took 50 seconds Carried tons of encoded data It could lead to a breakthrough new form of spacecraft communications Viewed as a major step to sending astronauts to Mars and sending scientific data, HD images and streaming video Uses a flight laser transceiver, ground laser transmitter and other  technologies Travelled 40-times farther than the distance betwee