NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beamed an ultra-high definition streaming video from a record-setting 19 million miles away from earth. The video, featuring a cat named Taters, was sent back from nearly 80 times the Earth-Moon distance by NASA's laser communications demonstration.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth — to send a high-definition cat video. The 15-second meow-vie featuring an orange tabby named Taters is the first to be streamed from deep space, and demonstrates it’s […]
NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth to send a high-definition cat video."One of the goals is to demonstrate the ability to transmit broadband video across millions of miles.