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Jihadista On July 04, 2014

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#1New Post! Nov 22, 2013 @ 04:11:47
LADEE is short for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer andpronounced "laddie" ). It is an 844-pound (383 kilograms) spacecraft that launched from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sept. 7 and arrived in orbit around the moon last month.

As part of its science missions, LADEE will investigate the moon's transient atmosphere, its mysterious levitating dust particles and its surface conditions. But the probe is also equipped with a communications demonstration, a system that employs laser technology instead of radio wave transmissions, which could help scientists send and retrieve data from distant spacecraft in the future.

LADEE recently set a record for the fastest download rate between the moon and Earth, sending data 239,000 miles (384,633 kilometers) home at the relatively speedy download rate of 622 megabits per second. A NASA station at White Sands, New Mexico, picked up the signal — the first-ever laser transmission from lunar orbit.

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northinmind,
#2New Post! Nov 22, 2013 @ 18:40:24
this is great news.
no more dial up internet on the moon.
yeayyyyyy
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