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Web Enabled Spacecraft

Posted by michael on from the fluffy-bunny-to-the-rescue dept.

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?"

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  1. *Web* enabled? by arvindn · · Score: 0, Troll
    The reporter doesn't seem to know the difference between the web and the internet. The web is a collection of documents, the internet is a collection of computers. For the thing to be web enabled it'll have to have a cgi interface, not ftp.

    BTW, I don't think they are planning to control the spacecraft using FTP. That's just for beaming down the images and such. They're more likely using telnet for control operations. They probably have some kind of shell listening on some port.