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NASA engineers react to the first-ever high-definition video sent by laser from deep space, which feaures an orange tabby cat named Taters. NASA / JPL-Caltech While many cats are “internet famous,” an ...

Cats already rule the internet. Now it’s time to conquer space. A cutting-edge NASA communications experiment used a laser to beam a video to Earth from the Psyche spacecraft when it was nearly 19 ...

NASA’s asteroid probe ’Psyche’ successfully transmitted a cat video from outer space about 31 million km away from Earth in ...

NASA tested laser communications from space with a video of a cat chasing a laser dot! Psyche beamed the video about 19 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An orange tabby cat named Taters stars in the first video transmitted by laser from deep space, stealing the show as he chases a red laser light. The 15-second video was beamed ...

NEIL ARMSTRONG: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. MARTIN: Not quite. What they sent was a cat video. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MARTÍNEZ: Yeah, this dreamy music plays as a big ...

The 15-second video marked a new technological feat, in which NASA beamed a video from a record breaking distance using lasers. Reading time 4 minutes NASA just combined all of my favorite things: ...

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A laser communications experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission has beamed back a video to Earth from nearly 19 million miles away — and the short clip stars a cat named Taters. It’s the first ...