• ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Why not? There’s a bunch of applications where that is a requirement.

    The Lunar Laser Ranging experiments are a fun one, I think. Scientists shoot lasers at mirrors placed in the moon and measure the trip time of light to calculate the distance of the moon to the millimetre.

    However:

    Out of a pulse of 3×10E17 photons aimed at the reflector, only about 1–5 are received back on Earth, even under good conditions.