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Interplanetary Network (IPN) Tested

Posted by michael on from the token-ring dept.

CETS writes "Slim on detail but...USA Today reports of the first test of an Interplanetary Network. 'In a sign of cosmic communications to come, last week mission controllers sent signals to a Mars-orbiting European spacecraft, which relayed the instructions to NASA's Spirit rover on the surface, and a signal was returned to Earth back along the same path.'" NASA also has a press release.

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  1. w4j64j4w2j46 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this is a first post by the ulysses s. grant advocacy group

  2. what's the damn bug with slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    firebird and firefox have trouble rendering it.

  3. a thought... by odano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What I want to know is when I am going to get free WiFi on mars. That $10/day stuff is killing me.

  4. Re:USATODAY.com for all your science needs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The begenning depends on where you start. For some, the begenning is yet to come. Perhaps when DATA bones Tasha, that will be the true begenning.

    :-)> Evil Genius.

    Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy... the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical... summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds... pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it
  5. WOOT! by IdJit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hellabad lag, but what a LAN party!

    Intergalactic PlanetarREEE!

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    GET FREE APPLE STUFF!
  6. Sign the petition.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Vote to get Goatse.cx back into the club!

  7. Re:IPN not like TCP/IP by r_cerq · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You don't use a cable modem, do you? ;)