NASA proves interplanetary internet, Lego proves marketing brilliance

Sunita Williams, current ISS commander, took 'a small step for mankind' and a giant leap for the internet when she controlled a small Lego-branded robot at the ESA headquarters in Germany through the internet from the ISS.

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The breakthrough on display in the Lego experiment was NASA’s ARPA-like innovation in networking: Disruption Tolerant Networking, or the DTN protocol, which again looks to inoculate communications against disruptions and equipment failures.
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Wonders will never cease when crazy engineers are afoot.

NASA proves interplanetary internet, Lego proves marketing brilliance | ExtremeTech

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  • Kaustubh Katdare
    Kaustubh Katdare
    We covered the news on VoiCE. The DTN technology seems to be the future of communication. #-Link-Snipped-#

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