{"id":178709,"date":"2023-12-20T01:23:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T07:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/orange-tabby-cat-named-taters-steals-the-show-in-first-video-sent-by-laser-from-deep-space"},"modified":"2023-12-20T01:23:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T07:23:12","slug":"orange-tabby-cat-named-taters-steals-the-show-in-first-video-sent-by-laser-from-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/orange-tabby-cat-named-taters-steals-the-show-in-first-video-sent-by-laser-from-deep-space","title":{"rendered":"Orange tabby cat named Taters steals the show in first video sent by laser from deep space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/orange-tabby-cat-named-taters-steals-the-show-in-first-video-sent-by-laser-from-deep-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 An orange tabby cat named Taters stars in the first video transmitted by laser from deep space, stealing the show as he chases a red laser light.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" data-gtm-enhancement- href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasas-tech-demo-streams-first-video-from-deep-space-via-laser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 15-second video<\/a> was beamed to Earth from NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft, 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) away. It took less than two minutes for the ultra high-definition video to reach Caltech\u2019s Palomar Observatory, sent at the test system\u2019s maximum rate of 267 megabits per second.<\/p>\n<p>The video was loaded into Psyche\u2019s laser communication experiment before the <a class=\"\" data-gtm-enhancement- href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-metal-asteroid-spacex-launch-2df880c4b43e9eddf61022c950cf64c7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spacecraft blasted off<\/a> to a rare metal asteroid in October. The mission team at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, decided to feature an employee\u2019s 3-year-old playful kitty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 An orange tabby cat named Taters stars in the first video transmitted by laser from deep space, stealing the show as he chases a red laser light. The 15-second video was beamed to Earth from NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft, 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) away. It took less than two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}