NASA`s Human Exploration and Operations and Science Mission Directorates are collaborating to make interplanetary internet a reality. They`re about to demonstrate Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking, or DTN - a technology that sends information much the same way as conventional internet does. Information is put into DTN bundles, which are sent through space and ground networks to its destination. NASA`s new Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem, or PACE, mission will be the first space mission to use a new communication technology. From left to right are the engineers helping to build the mission: Nga Cao, Steve Feng, Wei Lu, Chris Zincke, and Zoran...
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