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NASA Tests First Deep-Space Internet Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about more than 32 million kilometers (20 million miles) from Earth. "This is the first step in creating a totally new space communications capability" (source: jpl.nasa.gov)
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