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Despite decades of technological development, NASA is still very limited in the rate of data transfer from distant space probes to Earth and back. It is for this reason that so far images from Mars are still low resolution, grainy and sometimes black and white. However, with new instruments scheduled to start working next year, NASA wants to start the era of transmitting information from space using infrared lasers, which will significantly increase speed throughput. When the construction of Optical Ground Station 2 (OGS-2) in Haleakala, Hawaii is completed, NASA wants to improve the technology for receiving and sending information to probes in space. Optical telescope dome at the OGS-2 station Along with the previously built OGS-1 station, the new station will send information to the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) probe. The spacecraft, scheduled to launch next year, will be the first space instrument to communicate with Earth using only lasers. Lasers – pros ...