2023-12-20 11:04:44
NASA announced that it used an advanced laser communications system to broadcast a video from space showing a cat called “Taters,” from a distance of 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) from Earth, marking a historic milestone.
This achievement is part of a technical demonstration by NASA that aims to broadcast high-resolution videos and other data from deep space, allowing future human missions to be sent beyond Earth’s orbit.
“This achievement underscores our commitment to advancing optical communications as a key component to meeting our future data transmission needs,” said Pam Milroy, NASA’s deputy administrator.
“In fact, after the video was received at Palomar, it was sent to JPL over the Internet, in a connection that is slower than the signal coming from deep space,” said Ryan Rogalin, project receiver electronics lead at JPL.
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