What’s there to do on the moon? How about watching some Youtube?

Earlier in October, NASA announced that it had successfully made a lunar broadband connection with its spaceships and probes on the moon. The connection is achieved via lasers running through fiber optics being pulsed off the Earth’s surface, and then redirected through a laser transmitter aboard a probe orbiting the moon.

At 622 megabits per second, Internet being used as communications will be a massive upgrade to NASA’s current system using radio waves. It’s very possible that broadband will be the future of deep space communications.

For reference, SMSU’s broadband speed averages roughly 300 megabits per second. The connection to the moon is over twice as fast.