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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:Imagine... by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Elebenty of tehm! Running Beowulfs!

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  2. Searching Doom 3 servers... by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 5, Funny

    CLANWARS_PUBLIC#1 LAVAPIT-BIG UDP 56
    LOL-GIBBERISHED OH!NOSHIT_ctf UDP 68
    PLAYTIME.DOT.UK DM_HOLYGROUNDS UDP 254
    FRAGFEST_REDPLANET DM_HELLHOLE UDP 2,139,442

    Ping of 2 MILLION? WTF ?!?

  3. Re:bollocks by Spikeles · · Score: 4, Funny

    then what will we call a communication protocol that works well between stars

    Interstellar?

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  4. Re:Remember FIDONet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We already have a working _global_ _worldwide_ _free_ network based on store-and-forward protocols.

    It's called FIDONet. It's almost dead now, but it was very alive during early 90-s before the advent of cheap Internet.

    Kids...

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