Satellite Captures Cat's Laser Hunt

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Pew Pew: Space Lasers Could Change How We Talk to Mars and Beyond

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In December 2023 , a video of an orange tabby cat named Taters chasing a laser pointer up and down a couch was transmitted from 19 million miles away from Earth .

The DSOC laser transceiver is the first demonstration of optical communication from distances as far away as Mars .

Optical communication systems pack data into the oscillations of light waves in lasers, encoding a message into an optical signal that is carried to a receiver through infrared beams.

Longer distances make it more difficult for space lasers to precisely hit a target on Earth .

In July , DSOC sent a laser signal from Earth to the Psyche spacecraft from a distance of 290 million miles ( 460 million kilometers ) The farther away Psyche travels on its way to its asteroid target, the fainter the laser photon signal will become.

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