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Members of the DSOC team react to the first high-definition streaming video to be sent via laser by the DSOC tranceiver aboard the Psyche spacecraft, nearly 19 million miles from Earth, featuring a cat named Taters, on December 11, 2023 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA on December 18, 2023 announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth -- to send a high-definition cat video. The 15-second meow-vie featuring an orange tabby named Taters is the first to be streamed from deep space, and demonstrates it's possible to transmit the higher-data-rate communications needed to support complex missions such as sending humans to Mars. (Photo by Handout / NASA/JPL-Caltech / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA / JPL-Caltech" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS