Sketch Card 2019-004
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Original Sketch Card from the 2019 Spaceship A Day series: 004/365: LaserCom 3357 - Free Friday
It's the first Free Friday ship of 2019!
This is a high-powered transmitter hub where busy RF traffic is collected, collated and collimated into a laser beam capable of achieving multiple megawatt power levels. It's used for super-efficient burst communications, tight-beamed across solar system distances, or sometimes even interstellar. The "business end" is pointing away from us, which is good, because this close we'd get vaporized even by a 1-second use.
2019-004
Original Sketch Card from the 2019 Spaceship A Day series: 004/365: LaserCom 3357 - Free Friday
It's the first Free Friday ship of 2019!
This is a high-powered transmitter hub where busy RF traffic is collected, collated and collimated into a laser beam capable of achieving multiple megawatt power levels. It's used for super-efficient burst communications, tight-beamed across solar system distances, or sometimes even interstellar. The "business end" is pointing away from us, which is good, because this close we'd get vaporized even by a 1-second use.