Space probes could talk faster with light.

United Press International | July 25, 2002 | Copyright

PASADENA, Calif., Jul 25, 2002

NASA is in the process of updating its deep space communications network, but a team of researchers has urged the agency to abandon radio wave technology and look to develop a new system based on near-infrared lasers.

"It's pretty obvious that in a few years the Deep Space Network won't be able to handle the loads that are going to be put on it," Alex Harwitt, a researcher and developer at Transparent Networks in Milpitas, Calif., said in an interview with United Press International.

Harwitt, co-author of a paper ...

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