NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet

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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Re:Store anf forward.. could it be...

[corsec67]

Hmm, you could combine both of those.

Coat the (live, perhaps) pigeon with butter, and then throw it hard enough that it gets fried in flight, assuming you are in an atmosphere. You might need to add a bit of aluminum foil to even out the heating.

Data and a meal.