Tuesday, 26 December 2023 | 09:42 WIB
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NASA successfully demonstrated new laser communications capabilities by sending ultra-high definition (UHD) video of a cat 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) from its Psyche space probe to Earth earlier this month. (Special/Ist)
California, Beritasatu.com – NASA successfully demonstrated new laser communications capabilities by sending ultra-high definition (UHD) video 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) from the Psyche space probe to Earth earlier this month.
This is the first time UHD streaming video has been sent from space via laser technology. The historic video features a 15-second clip of an orange cat named Taters chasing a laser dot.
“Even though it is transmitted from millions of miles away, the video can be sent faster than most broadband internet connections,” said Ryan Rogalin, receiver electronics lead for the project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, Monday (25/12/2023).
Rogalin said that after receiving the video at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, California, the video was sent to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) via the internet. “It turns out that this connection is slower than signals coming from deep space,” said Rogalin.
The signal from the video sent on December 11 arrived on Earth within 101 seconds of Psyche’s location at that time, which is about 80 times farther than the distance between Earth and the Moon.
The video was uploaded before the mission launched and sent back via the flight’s laser transceiver aboard Psyche at 267Mbps. The spacecraft, which launched in October, is on its way to a metal-rich asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
2023-12-26 02:42:59
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