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It is time.

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On December 7 2021, NASA
launched the laser

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communications Relay
Demonstration payload or LC rd

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one.

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And we have lift off of United
Launch Alliance Atlas five

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rocket with the SDP three
mission for the United States

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Space Force.

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LCD is testing revolutionary
laser communications

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technologies which can offer
science and exploration missions

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more data than ever before. Over
the holidays, we asked for

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social media users and NASA
missions to share their New

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Year's resolutions with us using
the hashtag LCR D resolutions.

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Today, we are happy to announce
that we've transmitted those

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resolutions to space over laser
links through the LCR D mission.

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But how did we send your
resolutions to space? What is

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LCR? D.

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LCR D is this part of the
spacecraft that's about the size

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of a king size bed and has two
optical modules. They're

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basically telescopes that look
down to the earth and look at

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our to ground stations in Hawaii
in California. So this is 10

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scale. But this is a full scale
optical module. This is the

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telescope that will do bi
directional communication. So

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the lasers coming into this
telescope will be going to the

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earth and coming back.

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Now that we are on orbit and
transmitting data through LCD,

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we're sticking to our New Year's
resolutions. We're using LCD as

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a platform for optical
communications experimentation,

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and showcasing the benefits that
laser communications high data

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rates can offer science and
exploration missions. We've also

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launched teebird, a small
satellite demonstrating NASA's

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highest ever space data rates
using laser links. Soon, we'll

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install a laser communications
terminal on the International

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Space Station, empowering
astronauts on the orbiting

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laboratory with new
communications capabilities. We

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are also furnishing the Artemis
two mission with a laser

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communication system so NASA can
transmit high definition video

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of the next generation of lunar
explorers. To learn more about