Random geekage.
There are days when I love being on NASA's Press Release mailing list...
NASA SUCCESSFULLY TESTS FIRST DEEP SPACE INTERNET
From here:
NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth.
"This is the first step in creating a totally new space communications capability, an interplanetary Internet," said Adrian Hooke, team lead and manager of space-networking architecture, technology and standards at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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The Interplanetary Internet must be robust to withstand delays,
disruptions and disconnections in space. Glitches can happen when a
spacecraft moves behind a planet, or when solar storms and long
communication delays occur. The delay in sending or receiving data
from Mars takes between three-and-a-half to 20 minutes at the speed
of light.
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In the next few years, the Interplanetary Internet could enable many
new types of space missions. Complex missions involving multiple
landed, mobile and orbiting spacecraft will be far easier to support
through the use of the Interplanetary Internet. It also could ensure
reliable communications for astronauts on the surface of the moon.
As a lifelong sci-fi geek and a user of the internet since the days Gopher and Usenet ruled the land, 2400 baud was fast and everyone cursed the words 'LOST CARRIER'? This is both cockle-warming and funny as hell, for more reasons than I can adequately explain in a quick post from work.
NASA SUCCESSFULLY TESTS FIRST DEEP SPACE INTERNET
From here:
NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth.
"This is the first step in creating a totally new space communications capability, an interplanetary Internet," said Adrian Hooke, team lead and manager of space-networking architecture, technology and standards at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
<...>
The Interplanetary Internet must be robust to withstand delays,
disruptions and disconnections in space. Glitches can happen when a
spacecraft moves behind a planet, or when solar storms and long
communication delays occur. The delay in sending or receiving data
from Mars takes between three-and-a-half to 20 minutes at the speed
of light.
<...>
In the next few years, the Interplanetary Internet could enable many
new types of space missions. Complex missions involving multiple
landed, mobile and orbiting spacecraft will be far easier to support
through the use of the Interplanetary Internet. It also could ensure
reliable communications for astronauts on the surface of the moon.
As a lifelong sci-fi geek and a user of the internet since the days Gopher and Usenet ruled the land, 2400 baud was fast and everyone cursed the words 'LOST CARRIER'? This is both cockle-warming and funny as hell, for more reasons than I can adequately explain in a quick post from work.