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NASA First 4K Video Stream from Aircraft to ISS Using Laser Tech

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By Web Desk Published July 26, 2024 2 Min Read
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4K video footage was transmitted from a PC-12 aircraft to an optical ground station in Cleveland, then relayed via an Earth-based network to NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. The signals were forwarded to NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration spacecraft and ultimately to the ILLUMA-T payload on the International Space Station. Photo Credits: Morgan Johnson / NASA
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Using advanced laser technology, NASA has successfully streamed 4K video from an aircraft to the International Space Station (ISS) and back.

The NASA’s Glenn Research Center team in Cleveland orchestrated this pioneering achievement. It marks the first instance of high-definition video transmission via optical communications, and this technology promises to revolutionize data transfer in future space missions.

The experiment, part of ongoing technological tests at NASA, aims to enable live video coverage of astronauts on the Moon during upcoming Artemis missions. Dr. Daniel Raible, the principal investigator for the High-Rate Delay Tolerant Networking (HDTN) project at Glenn, highlighted the success of these experiments. He expressed optimism about leveraging this achievement to support high-definition videoconferencing for Artemis astronauts, which will be crucial in maintaining crew health and coordinating activities.

Imagine turning on the local news to watch live 4K video footage of the first woman and first person of color walking on the Moon. Researchers at Glenn are conducting specialized aeronautics testing over Northeast Ohio to turn that dream into a reality: https://t.co/CRhzpRgOMf pic.twitter.com/FwCdeVVhoo

— NASA's Glenn Research Center (@NASAglenn) July 24, 2024

Traditionally, NASA has used radio waves for space communication, but laser communications offer a significant advancement. They use infrared light to transmit data. This method can handle 10 to 100 times more data and achieves faster transmission speeds than conventional radio frequency systems.

NASA partnered with the Air Force Research Laboratory for this test under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research program. Engineers mounted a portable laser terminal on a Pilatus PC-12 aircraft, which flew over Lake Erie.

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Engineers temporarily installed a portable laser terminal on the belly of @NASAGlenn’s PC-12 aircraft as a way to test new laser communications technologies before launching them to space.

Learn more: https://t.co/iLSuU0scuE pic.twitter.com/S5aA3jUqzh

— NASA Laser Communications (@NASALaserComm) July 25, 2024

The aircraft transmitted data to an optical ground station in Cleveland, which then routed the information through an Earth-based network to NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The data was sent 22,000 miles away to NASA’s orbiting Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) there. The LCRD relayed the signals to the ISS’s ILLUMA-T payload, which completed the loop by sending data back to Earth.

Throughout these experiments, the new HDTN system developed at Glenn proved essential in enhancing signal transmission through cloud cover, thereby maintaining consistent communication quality.

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