In an cute take a look at of the capabilities inside their Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC), the oldsters at NASA used lasers to stream a 15 second ultra-high definition video of an orange cat named Taters chasing a laser pointer throughout the display.
The video got here from the Psyche spacecraft, which is touring the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth. The sign took lower than two minutes to succeed in its vacation spot in San Diego, California.
The sign took about 101 seconds to succeed in Earth. The video was despatched on the system’s most bit price of 267 megabits per second. Capable of sending and receiving near-infrared alerts, DSOC’s flight laser transceiver – a cutting-edge instrument aboard Psyche – beamed an encoded near-infrared laser to the Hale Telescope at Palomar in San Diego County, California, the place it was downloaded. Each body from the looping video was then despatched “live” to JPL, the place the video was performed, in actual time.
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