The feline frontier: NASA sends cat video from deep space

NASA announces it has used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 31 million kilometres 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 that it is possible to transmit the sort of communications needed to support complex missions such as sending humans to Mars.