NASA Testing The Space Internet
Nov 19th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: GeneralNASA announced today that it 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, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located […]