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brcmthrowawaytoday at 3:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

How does laser communication work with a moving object with 9DoF?!


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sbarretoday at 3:59 PM

Apparently with a gimbal and some fast-moving mirrors.

https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/lincoln-laboratory-laser-communi...

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functional_devtoday at 6:37 PM

I was wondering about this too! I did not know how they can aim a laser from so far at a moving spaceship.

I generated this visual map about to help me understand it - https://vectree.io/c/aiming-space-lasers-gimbals-and-beam-di...

kotaKattoday at 4:17 PM

Just like this, a Starlink gimbal being tested for future third party laser comms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpFfC9WY0qs