Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: NASA on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) 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.
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