00:03our planet has just received a message from deep space one that originated from some 10 million
00:09miles away okay so that message was from ourselves to ourselves but it was the furthest optical
00:14message ever sent or received and it's a baseline for future deep space communications currently
00:19most messages are sent via radio waves the problem is those waves are slow due to low
00:24bandwidth enter optical near-infrared messaging a communication method that can drastically
00:29increase the amount of information sent the recent optical message was sent from a distance 40 times
00:34out of earth to the moon this is all part of NASA's deep space optical communications or DSOC and this
00:39first message is being referred to as first light with director of tech demonstrations at NASA Trudy
00:45Cortez saying about it achieving first light is one of many critical DSOC milestones in the coming
00:50months paving the way toward higher data rate communications capable of sending scientific
00:55information high-definition imagery and streaming video in support of humanity's next giant leap
01:00humanity's next giant leap being settling on other worlds such as the moon and eventually Mars
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