NASA Beams Hi-Def Video From Space Via Laser 38
An anonymous reader writes "NASA successfully beamed a high-definition video 260 miles from the International Space Station to Earth Thursday using a new laser communications instrument. Transmission of 'Hello, World!' as a video message was the first 175-megabit communication for the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS), a technology demonstration that allows NASA to test methods for communication with future spacecraft using higher bandwidth than radio waves." Last September, NASA's LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) showed that they could supply a lunar colony with broadband via lasers.
disaster for NASA! (Score:3, Funny)
NASA Beams Hi-Def Video From Space
Good god! Haven't they thought this through? Once the RIAA hears of this, it'll be the end for our space program!