Milestone! NASA CubeSat transmits nearly 1 TB of information to Earth throughout a 5 minute go
NASA’s Terabyte Infrared Supply (TBIRD), a tissue-box-sized CubeSat designed to showcase the unprecedented communications capabilities of lasers from area, lately transmitted nearly 1 TB of information to Earth within the daytime throughout a ~5.5 minutes go, the company tweeted on Thursday.
TBIRD launched on Could 25, 2022, as a part of the Pathfinder Expertise Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) mission, from Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 rideshare mission.
the TBIRD system is testing many new capabilities throughout its mission together with demonstrating a direct-to-Earth laser communications hyperlink at 200Gbps – the best information fee ever achieved