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NASA's Space Internet to be Upgraded

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Post by Lurker Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:45 pm


Today's system will become totally inadequate if, for example, commercial spaceflight becomes popular and affordable in the next 10 to 15 years. It won't be just rich space tourists wanting to tweet from space — the craft themselves and all their support crews will need high-speed Internet to monitor things from the ground. The same goes for new satellites, new space stations and so on.


http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/lasers-orbital-wi-fi-more-works-nasas-space-internet-1C8855234




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Post by Ben Reilly Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:18 pm

Interesting! I wish they'd gone more into this:

Another technology under investigation is Delay-Tolerant Networking, which make the space networks (and maybe, later, ours here on Earth) far better at dealing with the interval between one end's transmission and the other end's reception.
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