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Space Station Astronauts Gain Internet Access
cyclone96 writes "Internet access on the International Space Station went live this morning. The crew now has full browsing capability via a special LAN and the Ku-band data link on the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite network, as described in the NASA press release. Flight Engineer T. J. Creamer used the access to post the first tweet from orbit about 7 hours ago. Previous astronaut tweets had been posted by a third party on the ground via email."
...now they are gonna be so busy lolcatting and 4channing it up that nothing is gonna get done.
GG.
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Out of curiosity, is there an ISO country code for low Earth orbit?
where no botnet/porn/rickrolling has gone before.
Remember the last time(s) the Space Station's laptops got infected?
[Fuck Beta]
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Dear sirs:
I am the son of the Eternal Living God of Mars, who was recently assinated by opposition forces. I cincerely need you help to transfer 5,000,000 Gomlets (Five million gromlets) from my planet to yours...
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
But the internet is provided through a contract with Verizon Wireless, the $49.99Million/mo 'Unlimited' plan includes 100Mb of data 25k/25k transfer speeds and 1 email account.
Great, they RDP to a ground computer and go about their way. 3 problems I can forsee: 1. Somewhat laggy screen redraw 2. Possible RDPviewer remote code exploits? Then there'll be the first goatxe in space. 3. Line of sight problems, how is the handoff handled once the station goes over the horizon? Cool, though, glad to hear they've got the capability... Lets get them 100meg access, the RIAA and MPAA cant get them in SPACE!
figured it would be up here today...
Still no aliens. Keeping vigilant.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I wonder if there is too much latency for something other than web browsing? Say you tube ormore likely porn videos.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
When I posted, "a/s/l check?" to 'Fun Single's this morning I got: "45/m/Rp = 6714 km, i = 51.6419 degrees. Please chat with me, it's really lonely up here," as a response.
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So they finally get Internet access, and one of the first things they use it for is a tweet on Twitter? Talk about useless.
Houston, please repeat. Right. Yes, the new solar panel has been successfully installed. ISS out.
Today:
hstn, lol wut?1? ya we pwnd sol pan1 suxrz1!!
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the lag is really going to suck.
But seriously, good work, engineering types who worked on this.
I am officially gone from
One small step for man. One giant tweet for mankind.
On the billion to one chance, what if that was one of the astronauts!? Then we'd have to have the first Troll from orbit... and.. Well, never mind ;)
Shh.
In a week it's going to look like a snow globe in there!
I guess the vacuum of space was too much of a challenge to overcome with RFC1149 IP datagrams.
Seriously, need to make a square filter fit in a round processing machine? Hell, with the followers of that twitter account: darn useful. Just because you don't understand it doesn't make real-time useless :P
Shh.
They need to hop on ye ole usenet and download something.
I can't believe with all that time they've got up there, they wasted their first tweet not writing
That's one small tweet for man. One giant tweet for mankind.
Thank you for your online order; Online Pizza Delivery status: "6-12 months, Pending Space Shuttle availability; NEW click here for 2 day super saver shipping"
Anything that gets more people interested and supportive is a good thing - even if it's something as inane as Twitter.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Are we sure this is wise? I mean how long can it be until the Chinese root the friggin space station?
Previous astronaut tweets had been posted by a third party on the ground via email.
So, then, they did have SOME access before?
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have pr0n in space! :D
Thinking about it, twitter might be a good way for NASA to get the youngsters interested. Many people seemingly have the attention-span of a tweet now, but NASA things tend to be, let's say, "more involved" (meaning longer, methodical and boring), but that's the reality of safe space travel.
Reply to the first tweet from space: tl;dr
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src: wikipedia
(Wi-Fi) distance records (using non-standard devices) include 382 km (237 mi) in June 2007.
(ISS) maintained at an orbit between 278 km (173 mi) and 460 km (286 mi) altitude.
If their laptops don't have their wi-fi cards removed, that would make for some out-of-this-world wardriving.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/05/13/twitter.space/ wtf?? how many times wil they have the 1st tweet from space?
Now they can watch Pr0n at 18000 miles per hour! This is truly a giant leap for mankind!
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
Instead of filing a patent by just appending "on the internet" to every idea anyone's ever had, now they'll be adding "in space". I can see it now: "Business process patent describing the sales of books to previously known customers -- on the internet -- in space". There you go Amazon, this one's for you.....
Some bring out the best in others, some the worst. Some bring out far more.
In my lingo "internet access" is the full (or a reasonable part) of the TCP/IP stack. Something like all TCP and UDP ports in both directions plus SCPT (transport), ICMP and IPSec (internet layer).
What the astronatus have is an HTTP proxy server!
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
OMG! teh Eagle has landed! W00t!
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It really is nice.
Even if it has satellite lag it's nice. And the Human Race is better for it.
Now with that said, we have some problems on Earth.
Constitution
Electronic Vote Tabulation Devices
Corporate Owned Public Spectrum
State Secrets covering corruption
Banksters
and on and on and on
But I will take the chance to sniff the rose proposed to the people or Earth from the ISS above us.
I did find it ironic that the "first" internet usage in space was from a man named Creamer.
So now we can read tweets with as much substans as the vaccum of space actualy writen in the vaccum of space.
my god man, surely you must be joking as orbital botnet bombardment was outlawed outright in the space treaty of 2247!
They better watch what they post, otherwise Huston might find out... What goes on in the ISS, stays on the ISS, unless you post it on facebook.
I wonder if their connection is being monitored closely?
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You just invited 100k nerds to date your sister!
What's her phone number?
Free Martian Whores!
...porn servers all over the Internet report a record number of downloads. Film at eleven.
This ain't rocket surgery.
funny, it seems that they have to share screens with a ground computer. from my experience windows media center will not work in space.
Isn't RDP's weak point in the initial authentication (which is why RDP over an open wifi network is a bad idea)? If so, isn't this just begging for someone to go for the ULTIMATE man in the middle attack?
And, if that happens... will the hacker's first task be to tweet "How are you gentlemen!!"
#DeleteChrome
Or palming to furries.
What I would like to know is, how come, a full decade into 21st century, with ALL the technology inside the ISS, and thousands of communication satellites in your immediate vicinity, how come they *just now* get something as freakin' obvious as Internet access? And you wonder what's wrong with USA's Space program... seems that for each Mars rover in the NASA, there are a million ISS without Internet access...
"Hello Twitterverse!... send your ?s"
First response: "A/S/L?"
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In Space, No One Can Hear You Spam.
"During periods when the station is actively communicating with the ground using high-speed Ku-band communications"
You read the article incorrectly. The above means that when they are NOT actively using the link it's available for the new 'LAN'. When the link is being used for 'real' work they fall back to the terminal server.