Taters the cat stars in Nasa’s first video streamed from deep space

Nasa staffers react to the Taters transmission originating from the Psyche spacecraft, nearly 19m miles from Earth. Photograph: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/AFP/Getty Images

He may not be the first cat in space – that honour goes to a French feline named Félicette in 1963 – but on Monday an orange tabby named Taters took an arguably bigger prize: first cat video in space.

Nasa sent a 15-second video of Taters in ultra-HD, which travelled almost 19m miles from a probe back to Earth.