NASA just streamed the first deep space video, and it embodies the earliest days of the online video with a cat chasing a laser.
The first video streamed from deep space has arrived, with NASA showcasing an HD video of a cat named Taters chasing a laser. The video was streamed from a DSOC transceiver aboard the Psyche spacecraft, which is almost 19 million miles away from Earth.
It’s a monumental accomplishment to pull off such a long-distance streaming project, and it shows just how powerful NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has already proven to be. The system utilizes lasers to send communication signals across long distances in space, and could completely change how we communicate on future space missions.
“This accomplishment underscores our commitment to advancing optical communications as a key element to meeting our future data transmission needs,” NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy said in a post detailing the streaming of the first deep space video.
