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Whatever Happened To The Mars Network?
mhw25 writes "There is a NASA/JPL project, conceptualised back in 1999, that proposed to launch a Mars Network. It boldly projected that "Deployment of a prototype Microsat, tentatively scheduled for 2003, would be the first step in creating this Mars "Internet.""
With 2003 drawing to a close and no .mars domain registration offered, perhaps it is time NASA and other space agencies to rethink and revisit this worthy project, especially in light of the recent problems faced by the Beagle2."
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Cool!!
News Flash -- Impressive thing of the future fails to materialize as promised. Advocates of the flying car, personal nuclear generator, and personal rocket packs send their condolences to anyone holding out for hopes of an interplanetary network anytime soon.
This was my favourite idea for what to do with the Iridium nodes: send up rigs to boost them into a slow (or at least low delta V/sec) orbit to Mars, to set up a communications backbone there. They were pretty much what you'd want for the job, with plenty of capacity to spare.
As a semi-aside, I get irked by the kneejerk reaction to de-orbit everything, when getting it up there is 90% or so of the cost. If there was ever an environment were recycling made sense...
-- MarkusQ
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From what I remember of this in an IEE lecture, they were thinking a bit bigger than a .mars domain.
.mars.sol and .earth.sol. Gives a bit more room for expansion in the future I guess.....
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Steve.