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For the first time, the United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) succeeded in sending video footage of cats from space in a live broadcast. The delivery was considered an achievement for a communication system with outer space.
NASA announced the delivery from outer space using a super-sophisticated laser communication system from a spacecraft 31 million kilometers from Earth, Monday (18/12/2023). The system sends high-definition cat videos called ”Meow-vie” to Earth as a live broadcast.
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The 15-second video shows an orange cat named Taters running around on a sofa chasing a laser. Taters is the pet cat of a Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) employee. This video from space shows the possibility of sending communications at high data rates. It’s a crucial form of communication for large and complex space exploration missions, such as sending humans to Mars.
The video was beamed to Earth using a laser transceiver placed on the spacecraft on the Psyche mission, a research mission in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The goal is to explore mysterious metal-rich objects in the asteroid belt. When sending the video of the cat, the Psyche mission spacecraft was 80 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.
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NASA announced the 15-second video of the cat Taters was successfully sent from space as a live broadcast on December 11, 2023.
The encoded near-infrared signal was received by the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego. Then, the signal was sent to NASA’s JPL in Southern California.
”One goal is to demonstrate the ability to transmit broadband video over millions of miles. “There’s nothing in Psyche that generates video data, so we typically send randomly generated test data packets,” said Bill Klipstein, Technology Demo Project Manager at JPL.
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The choice of cats as material for the first broadcast from space is related to the history of the first television in the 1920s. At that time, the statue of Felix the Cat was broadcast as a test image. Taters’ owner said, even though he is now famous, Taters is still a humble and not arrogant cat. (AFP)
2023-12-21 01:15:38
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