On December 11, 2023, NASA beamed a 15-second video of a cat named Taters chasing a laser pointer from 31 million kilometers away. The video was sent using a laser communications experiment on NASA’s Psyche mission. It took 101 seconds to send the video to Earth.
The video was the first time NASA has streamed a video from deep space using a laser. It also broke NASA’s own record for transmitting ultra-high-definition video over a distance.
The video was uploaded before launch and shows Tabby, the pet of a JPL employee, chasing a laser light on a couch. The video also includes test graphics.
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy said the accomplishment highlights the agency’s commitment to advancing optical communications.
NASA has broken its own record by transmitting ultra-high-definition video over a distance of 31 million kilometres from deep space. The footage wasn’t of distant celestial bodies or spacecraft, but of a cat called Taters chasing the light from a laser pointer
Taters is an orange tabby cat who stars in NASA’s first video transmitted from deep space. The 15-second video shows Taters chasing a red laser light. It was beamed to Earth from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is 19 million miles away. The video traveled 19 million miles in 1 minute and 41 seconds
The video was loaded onto the Psyche probe in October and beamed from the probe on December 11. The probe is traveling through the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, sending out high-data-rate signals to test communications through space.
Taters is a three-year-old cat who belongs to an employee at the Jet Propulsion Lab
According to NPR, Taters won’t be making any more appearances in NASA’s test transmissions. Taters himself hasn’t gone to space, but researchers filmed and uploaded a video of him to the Psyche spacecraft before its launch in October
As of November 16, 2022, only one cat has been to space: Félicette, a black-and-white Persian cat who was launched into orbit in 1963. Félicette was a stray cat from Paris who was launched on a 15-minute suborbital mission aboard a Véronique AG1 rocket. She flew nearly 100 miles above the Earth, where she briefly experienced weightlessness
Félicette is the only cat to have survived a trip into space. She is recognized for her achievements with a bronze statue at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.
France decided to use cats instead of dogs or monkeys for their space missions in 1961. They hoped to collect data that would allow them to launch their own astronauts. However, scientists later admitted that they learned nothing useful from Félicette’s autopsy. No more cats have been put into space.
In 1961, France decided to use cats for their space missions to collect data for launching astronauts. The French government purchased a normal street cat named Félicette for their space mission. Félicette was one of 14 cats selected for the French space program. Each cat had electrodes implanted into their brain and were subjected to many of the same activities included in human astronaut training
The French sent two cats into space in 1963 to test rockets for survivability. Félicette was one of the two cats launched, and she was the only one to survive. Félicette was studied for the effects of space travel. However, two months after returning from space, Félicette was euthanized so that researchers could examine her brain and study how space travel affected her body
Here’s some information about NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment. On December 11, 2023, NASA beamed back the first video from deep space using a laser. The 15-second clip, which was ultra-high definition, featured an orange tabby cat named Taters chasing a laser pointer. The video was transmitted from a flight laser transceiver as part of the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment, or DSOC. The experiment took place aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is currently on its way to 16 Psyche, a metal asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The DSOC experiment is a historic milestone in allowing humans to send visual communications from beyond Earth’s orbit. The agency hopes the technology will enable future astronauts to beam videos back from Mars or beyond.
Taters may not be the first cat in space – that honor goes to a French feline named Félicette in 1963 – but he may be the first to become “outer space famous.
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