NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Wednesday’s NewSpace Nexus fun fact is that the Apache Point Observatory (APO ... world that is equipped with a lunar laser. The observatory is run by New Mexico State ...

In an achievement never seen before, China has managed to do something that scientists across the world have been trying to ...

EARTH has received a message from beyond the moon, 10 million ... craft received and used as a pointing reference to direct a laser back to Earth. A second observatory in San Diego County received ...

The laser can ... journey around the moon. But DSOC marks the first time laser communications have been sent across deep space, which requires incredibly precise aim and pointing over millions ...

For instance, the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO) in New Mexico sends laser pulses toward the suitcase-sized retroreflectors left by the Apollo moon missions.

Nasa's DSOC experiment achieves 'first light' by beaming a near-infrared laser from a spacecraft in deep space to the Hale Telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory ... than the Moon is from ...

In the ultra-high definition video, the playful orange tabby cat chases, of all things, the elusive red dot from a laser pointer as it ... of Technology’s Palomar Observatory.

NASA has shown you can indeed use lasers to beam data from beyond the Moon to Earth ... its transceiver and point the craft’s downlink laser back to a separate observatory capable of decoding ...