https://phys.org/news/2024-10-nasa-laser-comms-demo-deep.html

NASA's laser comms demo makes deep space record, completes first phaseThe Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones, culminating in sending a signal to Mars' farthest distance from Earth.phys.org


https://blog.naver.com/jjy0501/223606438155

4์–ต 6์ฒœ๋งŒ km ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋ ˆ์ด์ € ๊ด‘ํ†ต์‹ ์— ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•œ ํ”„์‹œ์ผ€(NASAโ€™s Psyche spacecraft is depicted receiving a laser signal from the Deep Space Optical ...blog.naver.com






๋‚˜์‚ฌ์˜ ์†Œํ–‰์„ฑ ํƒ์‚ฌ์„  ํ”„์‹œ์ผ€ (Psyche)๊ฐ€ ์—ญ๋Œ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์ธ 4์–ต 6์ฒœ๋งŒkm ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋ ˆ์ด์ €๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ์šฐ์ฃผ ๊ด‘ํ†ต์‹ ์— ์„ฑ๊ณตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์„œ 2023๋…„ 11์›” 14์ผ 1600๋งŒkm ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•œ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ์ดํ›„ 1๋…„์ด ์ฑ„ ์•ˆ๋œ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย 


ํ”„์‹œ์ผ€์— ํƒ‘์žฌ๋œ ๊ทผ์ ์™ธ์„  ๋ ˆ์ด์ € ํ†ต์‹  ์žฅ์น˜์ธ Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์ „ํŒŒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํŒŒ์žฅ์ด ์งง์•„ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ „์†กํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์•ฝํ•ด์ง€๊ณ  ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ „์†ก ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๋А๋ ค์ง€๋Š” ๊ฑด ์–ด์ฉ” ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š”๋ฐ, ์‹ ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์•ฝํ•œ ๋งŒํผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒˆ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•ด์„œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒ€์ฆํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ DSOC๋Š” 1600๋งŒkm ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ 267Mbit/s์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ์„ธ์›Œ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์ •์šฉ ๊ณ ์† ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์— ์ค€ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์คฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย 


2024๋…„ 6์›” 24์ผ 3์–ต 9์ฒœ๋งŒkm ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ „์†ก ์†๋„๋Š” ํ‰๊ท  6.25Mbit/s, ์ตœ๊ณ  8.3Mbit/s๋กœ ๋งŽ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋ฌด์„  ์ „ํŒŒ์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด์„œ ์›”๋“ฑํžˆ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  7์›” 29์ผ์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์ธ 4์–ต 6์ฒœ๋งŒkm์—์„œ ๊ด‘ํ†ต์‹ ์— ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ด์ •ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์„ธ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์ง€๊ตฌ - ํ™”์„ฑ ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ฉ€ ๋•Œ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋น„์Šทํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ํ™”์„ฑ ์œ ์ธ ํƒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ด‘ํ†ต์‹ ์œผ๋กœ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย