NASA Successfully Tests Interplanetary Internet

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Hvad er det næste? TomTom til mælkevejen?
/Sik

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What's next? TomTom for the Milky way?
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NASA and Vint Cerf (Google VP, co-creator of the internet, nerd legend) have been working on updating our antiquated radio communications system for space for nearly a decade now, and a recent successful test represents the first step towards the goal of creating a deep space internet. Using software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) the team at NASA was able to transmit dozens of space images to and from a science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth. [...]

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Read more: http://gizmodo.com/5092309/nasa-successfully-tests-interplanetary-internet

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