NASA tests "interplanetary internet"

NASA tests "interplanetary internet"

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NASA has successfuly conducted a first test of a deep space communications network modelled on the internet. "This is the first step in creating a totally new space communications capability, an interplanetary internet,'' Adrian Hooke, NASA's manager of space-networking architecture, technology and standards, said.

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Of course this is something to look forward to in the future, but whats the use besides for NASA's research operators and astronauts, we haven't even colonized away from Earth, just all seems a bit too early for me.

More from source:

It said the delay, for example, in sending or receiving data from Mars takes between three-and-a-half minutes and 20 minutes at the speed of light.NASA said that if a destination path cannot be found, data packets are not discarded but kept by each network node until it can communicate safely with another node.Eventually, it said, the information is delivered to the end user. "In space today, an operations team must manually schedule each link and generate all the commands to specify which data to send, when to send it, and where to send it," said Leigh Torgerson, manager of the DTN Experiment Operations Center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

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[edit on 24/11/08 by serbsta]

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It said the delay, for example, in sending or receiving data from Mars takes between three-and-a-half minutes and 20 minutes at the speed of light.

Whoa...you scared me there for a nano-sec...

When I started reading this thread (good info BTW) I was like, "Uh Oh - work on the secret Lunar and Mars bases is gonna take a back seat to porn..."

But fortunately the downloading takes some time, so frustration will set in followed by dis-interest...!

That was close...



[edit on 11/24/2008 by chapter29]

Apologies for the apparent one liner but....Done

reply to post by VIKINGANT

Not
Another
Stupid
Announcement from nasa..

Oh "Jesus"

"NASA" did something

"Oh GOD"

"It must not be good"

"It's probably not in-line"

Weren't some scientists able to "teleport" a single atom, recently? I may be wrong, but if they can do this with matter, why can't they do this with pure data?

Originally posted by VIKINGANT
Apologies for the apparent one liner but....Done

Ooops, really sorry about that.

Can a moderator please delete this?

Please continue the discussion in the existing thread.

Thank you.

Thread closed.