NASA Wants New Space Net To Sustain Big Data Dumps; Moon and Mars Trips

coondoggie writes "What kind of network can support future commercial and government space trips around Earth and support bigger distances to the moon and Mars? NASA is in the process of exploring exactly what technology will be needed beyond 2022 in particular to support future space communication and navigation. The agency recently issued a Request for Information (RFI) to begin planning for such a new architecture."

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space trips around Earth??

[Anonymous Coward]

That's pretty much all we can manage. All we need is '60s technology for that, jeez.

Big plans

[Dyolf Knip]

NASA sure does dream big, considering they can barely even get to LEO these days. Their launch capacity has been diminishing steadily for the past 40 years. Thank goodness it's not entirely up to them anymore.

Re:Big plans

[ganjadude]

to be fair, NASA gets all the cuts by congress first. On top of that, everytime they have a multi year-decade plan, the *insert sitting president here* decides that the *insert previous president here*'s plan is no good, and makes NASA start over or shift to a new project. It really is no wonder why NASA is not what it could be, just follow the money