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Nasa uses spacecraft to test interplanetary network
News The interplanetary network Vint Cerf envisioned years ago had its first real test recently. This image shows an artist's concept of the interplanetary internet This new networking system, an outgrowth of Cerf's Interplanetary Net project, can be...
[November 20, 2008, 15:38]
TCP-Planet: A Reliable Transport Protocol for InterPlaNetary Internet
White Papers For this goal, the challenges posed by the InterPlaNetary Internet need to be addressed. Current TCP protocols have very poor performance in the InterPlaNetary Internet which is characterized by extremely high propagation delays, link errors...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
Vint Cerf: Launching an interplanetary Web
News So our focus of attention is on interplanetary for purposes of communicating with robotic devices, sensors and analysing. All of those variations caused us to design a new set of protocols, in addition to the ones that are normally part of the...
[June 21, 2001, 10:21]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If I were 30 again, I’d be working on interplanetary stuff" - so quotes Vint Cerf, one of the godfathers of the Internet as reported on our sister site silicon.com. As it happens, he’s 62 - and working on interplanetary stuff.
[July 29, 2005, 18:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I can think of no other reason for Godfather of the Internet Vint Cerf to spend so much time thinking about how to extend the Internet across interplanetary distances. The first test of the proposed IPN -InterPlaNetary internet -- will come in 2003...
[May 25, 2001, 17:50]
You've got mail - from Mars
News ET may not be able to phone home anytime soon, but the lovable alien may be able to send e-mail -- if a draft proposal released this week for an interplanetary Internet takes flight. Described as a "work in progress," the proposal to the Internet...
[May 25, 2001, 9:49]
Battle Planet
Downloads Instead of the old-fashioned earth battles you fight with your ultra modern space ship deep in the interplanetary space. Battle Planet is a modern version of the old action style game "Battle City". This game challenges your abilities of a good...
[June 16, 2005, 21:17]
Ambrosia Mars Rising
Downloads Armed with a Wave Motion Gun and a bottom-mounted explosive payload delivery system, the Vac-Fighter is one hot piece of hardware - the perfect fighter-bomber for settling interplanetary disputes. Developed by David Wareing, Mars Rising is the...
[June 16, 1998, 8:00]
A Year Ago: NASA plans cosmic Internet
News An airplane flight over Mars and an interplanetary Internet are among the new projects that would be funded under the NASA budget proposal unveiled Monday. Many of the projects won't yield payoffs until after 2000: For example, the Mars unmanned...
[February 2, 2000, 6:01]
Autonomous
Downloads Between these planets lurk the Interplanetary Military, fellow merchants, and of course greedy space pirates. Ever dream of ruling the universe? As any good galactic conqueror knows, money talks. In Autonomous you are a space captain trading your...
[July 13, 2008, 8:00]
Launching the Internet into outer space
News Researchers at NASA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the British National Space Centre and Britain's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency are currently drawing-up plans for an interplanetary Net (IPN) that they believe will make...
[November 17, 1999, 11:25]
Dr Vinton Cerf - Founder of the Internet
Talkback The interplanetary internet is set to change the face of communication not only on our planet, but also in the way we communicate with our technology in space. On March 2007, Alessandro Sorbello of New Realm Media http://www.newrealm.com.au...
[June 28, 2007, 1:21]
IDF: a walk on the wild side review
Reviews Whatever plastics and adhesives had gone into its manufacture, they were rapidly decomposing under the heat of the motherboard, while the fan at the back was pushing out an entirely noxious stream of interplanetary stench.
[September 13, 2002, 16:07]
Friday
Blog Forget sending picture disks of our culture out to the aliens, strapped to the sides of interplanetary probes: we should immediately start beaming the eBay database into space from Arecibo. Friday 17/1/03
[January 17, 2003, 16:36]
For 2001, futurists are playing coy
News Other would-be seers are jazzed by the prospect of an interplanetary or even intergalactic Internet -- a mother lode of futurist fodder with roots in scientific research at NASA. After the crystal ball cracks, it's tough to predict the future.
[January 2, 2001, 14:14]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Mars mission will be directly receivable by anyone with a two or three metre dish and some fairly simple electronics, so if you fancy doing your own interplanetary science then this is your chance.
[April 10, 2006, 11:35]
News Schmooze: Pac-Man Linux gobbles Microsoft
News The Schmoozer has always been a bit sceptical about the interplanetary Internet idea, since, as far as we know, there is nobody we want to get email from on Mars. The Linux operating system may pose many problems for competitors such as Microsoft...
[June 22, 2001, 17:56]
News Schmooze: They're watching you...
News I know -- how about interplanetary Internet communications? It admits the international satellite interception network exists, they're listening to our every word, and they're probably controlled by blood-drinking aliens.
[May 25, 2001, 16:29]
No, no, no
Talkback Such losses could occur in two ways that I can think of - friction with the interplanetary medium (dust, asteroid collision, that sort of thing), or somebody extracting WORK from the planet's angular momentum, such as using a gravitational...
[June 2, 2007, 1:37]
NASA plans cosmic Internet
News Many of the projects won't yield payoffs until after 2000: For example, the Mars unmanned aircraft would be scheduled to pass over Valles Marineris, a huge canyon on the Red Planet, in 2003 -- on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first...
[February 2, 1999, 16:58]
