NASA tests first deep-space Internet

NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modelled 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 kilometres (20 million miles) from Earth...

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