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NASA Space Technology Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust.Pushing the envelope: NASA is boldly going where no one has gone before with laser communications. The space agency's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment hitched a ride on the Psyche asteroid mission and achieved broadband speeds in deep space. In late July, the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) transmitted laser data across 290 million miles from the Psyche spacecraft back to Earth. That's roughly the maximum distance between our planet and Mars. The record-breaking downlink capped off the first operational phase for DSOC since its launch last October.The test downlinked nearly 11 terabits during its first phase. Project Operations Lead Meera Srinivasan at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the milestone confirmed laser communications could be a "robust and transformative...