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| | Press Release - NASA MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY TEAM TO TEST FIRST INTERPLANETARY LASER COMMUNICATION LINK- August ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) |
 | | A NASA MIT Lincoln Laboratory team has decided to forge the first laser communication link between Mars and Earth. |
 | | The experiment is a partnership among NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory (MIT/LL), Lexington, Mass. |
 | | "Lincoln Lab is very excited about this program because it challenges us, and provides an opportunity for the country to field, in-space, a very advanced system far earlier than might otherwise be possible," said Dr. Roy Bondurant, leader of the MIT/LL team. |
| www.gsfc.nasa.gov /news-release/releases/2004/04-042.htm (478 words) |
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