The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment is a pioneering technology demonstration that takes laser communications to the next frontier: deep space. The DSOC transceiver launched aboard the Psyche spacecraft – NASA’s first mission to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche – to test high-bandwidth optical communications with Earth during the first two years of the spacecraft’s journey to the main asteroid belt.With new deep space missions producing ever more data, laser-based communications...