While the video has all of the requisite cuteness of a daily cat video, the speed wherein the video traveled is the primary achievement in accordance with NASA. The check confirmed that DSOC and optical communications typically can transmit giant quantities of knowledge, quick. The 15-second check video took 101 seconds to achieve Earth, touring on the system’s most bit price of 267 megabits per second (Mbps). 

“Despite transmitting from millions of miles away, it was able to send the video faster than most broadband internet connections,” mentioned Ryan Rogalin, the venture’s receiver electronics lead at JPL. He went on to notice that it truly took longer to ship the video from Palomar to JPL over the web than it took Psyche to ship the video to Palomar from outer area. Taters’ video will not be the final little bit of animal-themed area science for JPL, both. The lab has additionally been engaged on a slithering, swimming robot snake to help NASA discover the floor of uncharted worlds.