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NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet

Posted by kdawson on from the here-hold-this dept.

hcg50a writes "NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth. The store-and-forward protocol was designed by NASA in consultation with Vint Cerf. Here's a discussion from last July before the test began."

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  1. Re:Store anf forward.. could it be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    WOW. Normally people would ignore such a badley speled poast. But not you! You've gone and called the person stupid.

    While your post is well informed and shows a knowledge of the technology being discussed in the article, your response is one of the most reactionary and pissed-off I can remember.

    Damn man, some people don't know as much as you. OH NOES! Have a beer and chill out, for chrissakes.

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    So, in a way, YOU WIN!