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NASA Tests ‘Interplanetary Internet’
Saturday, November 10, 2012 9:31
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Published: Nov. 9, 2012 at 5:55 PM
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) — NASA and the European Space Agency say they have tested an “interplanetary” communication network replicating some of the functions of the Internet.
As part of the experiment, the crew of the International Space Station Expedition used a NASA-developed laptop to operate a small LEGO robot at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany.
“The demonstration showed the feasibility of using a new communications infrastructure to send commands to a surface robot from an orbiting spacecraft and receive images and data back from the robot,” said Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator for space communications and navigation at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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