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NASA Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space via Laser

Surprise! It's a Cat Video

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Tom Patton
Dec 27, 2023
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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beamed an ultra-high definition streaming video on Dec. 11 from a record-setting 19 million miles away. The milestone is part of a NASA technology demonstration aimed at streaming very high-bandwidth video and other data from deep space – enabling future human missions beyond Earth orbit.

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