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October 27, 2016

Using Photonics to Call Home
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 27, 2016
A largely unrecognized field called photonics may provide solutions to some of NASA's most pressing challenges in future spaceflight. Photonics explores the many applications of generating, detecting and manipulating photons, or particles of light that, among other things, make up laser beams. On this day in 1983, the General Conference of Weights and Measures adopted the accepted value for the speed of light, an important photonics milestone. Oct. 21, 2016, was a Day of Photonics, a biennial even ... read more

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