Wednesday, November 19, 2008

NASA Tests First "Deep Space Internet"

The Internet has officially gone galactic. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California announced that they had successfully tested a deep space communications network based on the architecture of the Internet. Using software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN), NASA was able to transmit images of space to and from a spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth.

“This is the first step in creating a totally new space communications capability, an interplanetary Internet,” said NASA team leader Adrian Hook.

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Friday, November 14, 2008

He Is One ...

This is just a glimpse of what our brave soldiers go through to save our motherland for our children, so that they can live with dignity. He is one of them who committed their present for the sake of our future.