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Article: University of Colorado at Boulder, NASA Test New 'Space Internet' Protocols on International Space Station.
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- July 6, 2009
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Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder
BOULDER, Colo., July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Colorado at Boulder is working with NASA to develop a new communications technology now being tested on the International Space Station, which will extend Earth's Internet into outer space and across the solar system.
Called Disruption Tolerant Networking, or DTN, the new technology will enable NASA and other space agencies around the world to better communicate with international fleets of spacecraft that will be used to explore the moon and Mars in the future. The technology is expected to lead to a working "Interplanetary Internet," said Kevin ...