NASA used Laser to send ultra HD videos of Cat from deep space, this is the first successful experiment in human history to stream a video of cat from a distance of 16 million km away from Earth by NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft. In this short-duration ultra HD video, a cat named Taters chases a red dot from a laser pointer and moves across a couch.
A video of a cat was sent to Earth through a Flight Laser Transceiver as part of Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology. This technology could potentially be used one day to rapidly transmit data, imagery, and videos, especially as humans explore the boundaries of space, such as on planets like Mars.
NASA used Laser to send ultra HD videos of Cat from deep space
A 15-second video was encoded in a close-range laser and transmitted from the Psyche spacecraft to the Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory of the California Institute of Technology. The video was downloaded at the observatory on December 11, and each frame was live-streamed to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
During the transmission, the distance between the Psyche spacecraft and the Hale Telescope was 80 times the distance between Earth and the Moon. It took only 101 seconds for the laser to reach Earth each time.
The Tech Demo was designed as NASA’s farthest application of high-bandwidth laser communication, testing the transmission and reception of data from Earth using an invisible near-infrared laser.
In 2013, NASA’s Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration set records for uplink and downlink data rates between Earth and the Moon using similar technology. The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) is taking optical communication into deep space, surpassing any previous optical communication test by enabling high-bandwidth communication over 1,000 times farther than any optical communication tested to date, extending beyond the Moon and into deep space.
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