
Researchers, Lego robot test Internet protocol for space
The Lego robot
(Credit: ESA)
NASA and the European Space Agency say they have successfully tested an interplanetary communications protocol, with astronauts on the International Space Station using it to control a Lego robot in Germany.
The protocol is called Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN), and one of its creators is Vint Cerf, who helped come up with the original Internet Protocol suite. NASA and the ESA said on Thursday that DTN may one day allow “internet-like communications” with spaceships and help support infrastructure on other planets.
“The demonstration showed the…
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