Space Station Live: OPALS is a Real Gem

NASA Commentator Lori Meggs at the Marshall Space Flight Center talks with Matt Abrahamson at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory about an International Space Station experiment that could change the way data is transmitted from space to Earth. The Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science, or OPALS, is a technology demonstration to improve and increase the amount of science data that can be transmitted to researchers using lasers instead of radio waves.

Watch Space Station Live, weekdays at 11am eastern.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv...

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