China Just Hit the Moon from Earth with New Laser
magine aiming at a strand of hair from 10 kilometers away—and hitting it.
Now imagine doing that in space, with a laser, from 130,000 kilometers away.
That’s exactly what researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have just accomplished, and it could change everything we know about space communication and propulsion.
For the first time, a powerful infrared laser fired from Earth has successfully struck a satellite orbiting the Moon, piercing through daylight interference to deliver a beam that was then reflected back to Earth in under a second.
