psyche mission

NASA’s Psyche mission fires up its futuristic electric engines

A laser communications experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission has beamed back a video to Earth from nearly 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away — and the short clip stars a cat named Taters. It’s the first time NASA has streamed a video from deep space using a laser.

NASA’s Psyche Mission Is Off to Test a Space Laser (for Communications)