NASA Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space Via Laser (Media Reel)

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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment marked a historic milestone by streaming an ultra-high-definition video from deep space by laser for the first time.

A 15-second video featuring a cat named Taters chasing a laser pointer was beamed to Earth by the optical, or laser, communications technology demonstration on Dec.

11, 2023, from nearly 19 million miles away (30 million kilometers, about 80 times the Earth-Moon distance).