In 2006 a pulse of this type of beam sent a message a record 15 million miles to the MESSENGER spacecraft
Earlier in the LRO mission, the Apollo 13, 14, 15 and 17 impact sites... [DOC] [TLE] Hittin' The Web with The Allman Brothers Band :: Where Music Plus ... [PAR] posted on 2/15/2005 at 01:08 PM ... MESSENGER is about 91 million miles (
146.5 million kilometers) from the Sun and ... At that distance, a signal from Earth 
reaches the spacecraft in 2 minutes, 44 seconds.