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NASA Streams High-Speed Laser Video of a Cat in Space

Portrait of a dog astronaut in space on background of the globe. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Photo: Sonsedska / iStock / Getty Images

Taters the cat stars in NASA’s first ultra-HD video ever streamed from deep space.

A 15-second clip of Taters the cat travelled 19 million miles, 80 times the distance from Earth to the Moon, via laser that's faster than most broadband internet connections.

The video of the tabby cat was uploaded to a spacecraft launched with SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on 13 October, and eventually streamed on December 11th.

Taters, whose paws remained firmly on Earth, is owned by a Nasa employee.


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