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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