A team at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International Space Station and back for the first time using optical (laser) communications.
A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International Space Station and back. "Laser communications use infrared light to transmit 10 to 100 times ...
A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International ... radio frequency systems," according to NASA. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy ...