{"id":30987,"date":"2023-08-30T08:49:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T03:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30987"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:36:09","slug":"illumat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/illumat\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ILLUMA-T?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About ILLUMA-T:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is approximately\u00a0<strong>the size of a standard refrigerator<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It will be secured to an external module on the International Space Station to conduct its demonstration with Laser Communications Relay Demonstration LCRD.<\/li>\n<li>The ILLUMA-T along with the LCRD (Launched in December 2021) will complete Nasa\u2019s first two-way,\u00a0<strong>end-to-end\u00a0<\/strong>laser<strong> relay system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Once ILLUMA-T is on the space station, the terminal will send high-resolution data, including pictures and videos to LCRD at a rate of 1.2 gigabits-per-second.<\/li>\n<li>It is scheduled to launch on SpaceX\u2019s 29th Commercial Resupply Services mission for NASA.<\/li>\n<li>After its launch, ILLUMA-T will be installed on the station\u2019s Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility (JEM-EF).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Benefits<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Laser communications enable missions\u00a0<strong>to transmit more data in a single transmission<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>More science and exploration data from space allow NASA to make more discoveries about\u00a0<strong>our planet, microgravity, and the human spaceflight experience<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Laser communications systems provide numerous benefits to missions, including improved size, weight, and power requirements over comparable radio systems.<\/li>\n<li>A smaller\u00a0<strong>size increases capacity on the spacecraft<\/strong> for other science instruments.<\/li>\n<li>Less weight enables cost savings. Less power drain also means longer lasting batteries.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a laser?<\/h3>\n<p>A laser, which stands for &#8220;Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation,&#8221; is a device that generates a coherent and focused beam of light through a process known as stimulated emission. Lasers have a wide range of applications in various fields, including science, medicine, technology, communications, manufacturing, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/nasa-to-test-end-to-end-laser-communication-in-space-2428022-2023-08-29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nasa to test end-to-end laser communication in space<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ILLUMA-T along with the LCRD (Launched in December 2021) will complete Nasa\u2019s first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}