Despite the delay in this mission, investigators believe that the LCRD will be launched at the right time to benefit from the Artemis moon-landing mission to be launched in 2025. NASA has explained in detail the use of laser in space communication. It is said that with this technology 10 to 100 times more data than radio frequency can be sent back to Earth.
Badri Yunus, deputy associate administrator for NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation Program, said if the mission started using lasers, it would also prevent overcrowding of the radio frequency spectrum. A video has also been shared on NASA’s YouTube channel to show how the LCRD will work.
The congestion of the radiofrequency spectrum has intensified due to the increase in the number of clusters of satellites in low Earth orbits. In such a situation, the importance of LCRD increases, because NASA and the commercial sector are planning many space missions using Artemis.
Trudy Cortes, director of technology demonstrations at NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, said the new system will deliver higher data transmission rates. It will be smaller in volume, lower in weight and use less power than existing technology. The plan for this mission was approved in 2011. In 2018, it was asked to change its design and some other things.
Later, due to the corona epidemic, issues like supply chain came to the fore. NASA officials also said that there are some new requirements to move the payload hosted by the US Space Force, due to which its launch date was further delayed.
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