# @europeanspaceagency on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOA9a23DJ9D
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35581201-europeanspaceagency-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/d0dca53a2d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-08-31T09:50:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** J.L.Lopez (@xandler80) — https://gondola.cc/xandler80

## Caption

Four out of four! ⚡️

This summer, we pulled off something historic: four successful laser links with @NASA’s Psyche spacecraft — over 300 million kilometres away.

From mountaintops in Greece, our team fired laser beams across the Solar System, caught signals just a few photons strong, and even received… a cat video. Yes, the first-ever interplanetary cat chasing a laser! 

Why does it matter? Because optical communications can one day send huge amounts of data across deep space at lightning speed — from Mars missions to telescopes at the edge of the Solar System.

Europe has now shown it’s ready to support the future of deep-space laser communications. And that future looks brighter than ever.

📹 @europeanspaceagency
📸 ESA

## Stats

- **Views:** 126,899
- **Likes:** 9,772
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 69

## Credits

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ESA - European Space Agency | @europeanspaceagency | https://gondola.cc/europeanspaceagency | Government Organization |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Producer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Videographer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Social Media Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Writer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Publisher |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Digital Creator |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Creator |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Community Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Copywriter |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Subtitler |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Screenwriter |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Thumbnail Designer |

## Tags

europeanspaceagency, space

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