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NASA Tests Deep Space Networking Using DTN

NASA tests deep space networking to a craft 20 million miles from Earth.

NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet PASADENA, Calif. -- 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 20 million miles from Earth.

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Posted by | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 - 08:20 AM