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Web Enabled Spacecraft
gilgsn writes "Yahoo has an article from space.com about a satellite which will be operated by FTP over TCP/IP on the Internet! The CHIP (Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer) spacecraft will examine the stuff between stars, the so-called void of space that is actually rich with hot gas. The choice of protocol was dictated by economics. I wonder what OS it will run and if communications will be encrypted?"
Though they may have anticpated the slashdot effect.
Watch out: the RIAA will shut down the first Mp3 pirate server in space!
Oh no, that was MIR and yes, it crashed nicely after relatively long uptime (at least for Windows).
...space bases are belong to us?
this sig steers like a cow. and i can prove it
Windows SPACE! Service Pack 12.
In other news, a satellite was taken over by a 5 year old...
help me i've cloned myself and can't remember which one I am
I can see the headlines now, "new satellite lauched and it is controlled from a windows 95 workstation at www.h4x0r-R-t0yz.com"
Surely they could've hacked together something better than that? If that's a question of economy, their budget must be extremely small.
I didn't read the article btw.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
called Cosmic Orbital Discovery (COD) is planned to go along with CHIPS
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Space satalite are used as ftp server because ground line are froze solid!
Wow, what a chance to set up one of those 'off shore, DMCA-free' casino/pr0n servers.
It wont take long for someone to crack the satellite. They will download images thinking to collect nice data about deep space but instead will find that some h@X0R has redirected their satellite to take a good close look at Natalie Portman.
Or...the first DDoS initiated from space will soon be in the headlines.
FTP? C'mon!
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
What? No security through obscurity? I can hear the 5kr1p7 k1dd13z rejoicing...
J. |_337 H4x0r: D00d$$$ I took control of da satelite man! See hoe |337 I am!!!
J. |_3373r H4x0r: L00se, sux0r! I can make her spin round! Wheee! Wheeee!
J. |_337 H4x0r: What are you doing idiot you're taking her down!!!
J. |_3373r H4x0r: No way man. I'm much to |337 for that!! DAMMIT Windows crashed again! sux0rzzz!!!###
[Sattelite falls down to Earth]
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Ok, satellite running windows, yada yada, service pack yada yada, hacked by 12 year old, yada yada, Microsoft Windows for Space yada yada.
Ok, now I've gotten all the blindingly predictable jokes out of the way, can we move to something more interesting?
Read reviews of shopping cart software
In the first week after it goes online some kid will manage get a root shell, install Apache and leave a page stating that "IN SOVIET RUSSIA, DEEP SPACE PROBES YOU"...
They didn't mention the subsystems being developed for it:
JON: Joint Observation Net
PONCH: Passive ONboard Chemical Heuristics
May be they are running that on the xbox with a modchip. The evox software comes with a ftp server and understand some disk related commands. ;)
Remember this infamous bit of commenting?
in linux/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.cPing my boss. That should qualify. =)
SSH is the protocol they kept using to open and close the doors on the moon base. :-D
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
They'll need the 30+ mile long poles to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del...
On the Unix side -
That "No route to host" error becomes more meaningful.
"Uptime" will relate to orbit, not system.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
Would this be the only way to legally host a file server for MP3's? Or does the RIAA presume its jurisdiction (and yes, I do believe it has elevated itself to an enforcement entity) now extends to outer space?
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
So while FTP sounds like a really weird and unortohodox solution, it is after all a trivial protocol to transfer sets of batch commands.
That would be TFTP.. Hence the T
Alright, lets here it for War-orbiting!
DJMD - The fourth man - Planetary
When I worked in the MIT AI lab, the coke machine used FTP as a `control protocol'.
You'd ftp to the machine, log in (you had to have a coke account), and type:
get coke
The thing is, most people just use a normal FTP client, and the above command will actually transfer a file called `coke,' so I suppose it's better to type "get coke -".
But I always forgot about that, and as it happens, I usually drank Dr. Pepper, so to this day, in random directories on that system, I'll find little files called `drpepper'...
We live, as we dream -- alone....
...And I have a shell account, haha! Email me and I'll ask the admin about getting you one, too: spacejunk@satellite.nasa.gov
Need a Linux consultant in New Orleans?
Phew! After that RS-232 fiasco I guess the FTP protocol would be the next logical choice! Aren't FTP commands transmitted unencrypted as plain text. Looking to impress a girl, hack the satellite and have a shooting star at your command.
This
Don't be silly. You can't run Cat5 into space, it's too long of a run. This is definitely a job for single-mode fiber
The CHiPs spacecraft will be ground controlled by Officers 'Ponch' Poncherello and Jon Baker.
kind of misread that as
'WEP enabled spacecraft '
I can imagine loads of script kiddies aiming Pringles cans into the sky....