NASA Wants to Form an Interplanetary Internet
Posted 07/10/09 at 07:00:53 PM by Paul Lilly
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The rocket scientists at NASA hope to have a communications network ready by 2011 capable of efficiently transferring data between Earth and various probes, rovers, and spacecraft whizzing around the solar system, Discovery News reports. As it turns out, creating an interplanetary Internet is no easy task, even for the brainiacs at NASA.
"The communication delays are huge, and they are variable, because the planets are in orbit around the sun," says Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the Internet's TCP/IP protocol.
On the International Space Station, NASA has been performing tests of network technologies called Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocols. Computer scientists -- including Vint Cerf -- began working on DTN as far back as 1998 as a way to overcome issues in networks that lack continuous network connectivity. Whereas it takes just milliseconds for packets to go from source to destination on Earth, those same packets take at least 8 minutes when traveling from Earth to Mars. Not only that, but packets have to contend with constant motion of celestial bodies.
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Next step will be subspace
Submitted by Caboose on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 2:37pm
Next step will be subspace communications! THEN things will really take off eh!
As long as we keep those pesky Vulcans at bay, we'll be fighting the Borg in no time!
In all seriousness though, think about it. Once this is established and perfected, the next logical step is some form of subspace communications which will make talking to someone on the Mars colony or at Jupiter Station as simple as calling a friend on your cell phone. It would then open things up to even faster and more stable telecommunications here on Earth!
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Sweet
Submitted by alanmc76 on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 6:58pm
Sweet! It's just too bad the Asgard committed mass suicide and blew up their own planet. That would have been totally awesome to play Starcraft II online with Thor and Hermiod. LOL :)
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Submitted by codepath on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 6:36am
I think that Asgard is technically a dimension, not a planet.
Submitted by snapple00 on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 8:15am
But will it have enough bandwidth for a couple hundred people to play Crysis online?
Submitted by More600 on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 1:03am
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Submitted by smashingpumpin on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 8:07pm
why did NASA aim for the year 2011? what happens after the year 2011 anyways? hmm.. sounds scary lolz.
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Submitted by codepath on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 6:38am
They probably want to have this ready for the new vechicle they are building. The space shuttle will be retired by the end of next year and replaced with a new platform.
Submitted by smashingpumpin on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 9:55pm
...that was meant to be rhetoric X . X
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he's pwning with a trackpad? oh really? oh reheheheeally?
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Submitted by n0ctis on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 4:40pm
win!
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