{"id":770057,"date":"2023-10-20T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770057"},"modified":"2023-10-20T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:25:07","slug":"join-nasa-to-discuss-high-rate-laser-comms-demo-space-station-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770057","title":{"rendered":"Join NASA to Discuss High-Rate Laser Comms Demo, Space Station Science"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Join NASA to Discuss High-Rate Laser Comms Demo, Space Station Science<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen works on the Plant Habitat-03B Science Carrier, a space botany research device, in the International Space Station\u2019s Harmony module.<\/div>\n
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NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 26, to discuss a laser communications system and new research to understand the interactions between weather on Earth and in space. The investigations are two of many research and technology experiments bound for the International Space Station next month aboard the agency\u2019s SpaceX 29th commercial resupply services mission.<\/p>\n

Audio of the media call will stream live at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/nasatv<\/a><\/p>\n

Launch is targeted for no earlier than 10:01 p.m. EST Sunday, Nov. 5. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carried on the company\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket, will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n

The mission will carry scientific research, technology demonstrations, crew supplies, and hardware to the space station to support its Expedition 70 crew, including NASA\u2019s Integrated Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal (ILLUMA-T<\/a>) and Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE<\/a>).<\/p>\n

To ask questions during the teleconference, media must RSVP no later than two hours before the event to Claire O\u2019Shea at claire.a.o\u2019shea@nasa.gov. NASA\u2019s media accreditation policy<\/a> is available online. The public can submit questions on social media using #AskNASA.<\/p>\n

David Brady, associate program scientist for the International Space Station Program at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston, will provide an overview of the research and technology launching aboard the Dragon spacecraft.<\/p>\n

Other teleconference participants include:<\/p>\n