激光通信中继演示升空！

NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, or LCRD, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program 3 mission from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA的激光通信中继演示，或LCRD，由联合发射联盟宇宙神Ⅴ型火箭发射，于2021年12月7日星期二，在美国国防部的空间测试计划3任务中从佛罗里达州的NASA肯尼迪航天中心卡纳维拉尔角太空部队站的41号航天发射复合体发射。

LCRD will showcase the unique capabilities of optical communications. The mission’s Space Test Program Satellite-6 spacecraft also hosts the NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Ultraviolet Spectro-Coronagraph (UVSC) Pathfinder.

LCRD将展示光通信的独特能力。该任务的太空测试计划卫星6号航天器还搭载了NASA-U.s.海军研究实验室紫外光谱日冕仪（UVSC）探路者。

Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

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