Interplanetary Internet

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The Interplanetary Internet is a network of independent nodes in outer space that will act as the communication infastructure between planets in our galaxy. It the next step in the natural evolution of the Internet. As mankind continues to make extraordinary accomplishments in outer space exploration, the communication infrastructure which currently resides is becoming less applicable.

The idea of the Interplanetary Internet was first created by Vint Cerf when envisioning the future direction of the internet. His vision was a network on internets linked together by gateway's and run through the use of the Internet Protocol (IP) suite. The Interplanetary Internet will be used for many different types of applications. Among them will be reliable communication between earth and other planets in our solar system.

Since the distances between planets such as earth and mars are of such great magnitude, their needs to be a more efficient way of sending data back and forth. With this network infrastructure in place, the current communication problems that plague outer space missions will be avoided. This would in turn allow mission designers to create smaller aircrafts since payloads would be used less for communications equipment.

Contents 1 Challenges 1.1 Technical Challenges 1.2 Physical Challenges 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

Challenges

Th development and maintenance of the Interplanetary Internet faces many unique challenges. Most of which have clever and

Technical Challenges

Physical Challenges

See also

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• Sino-Japanese relations
• China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands

Some research efforts look at DTN for the Interplanetary Internet by examining use of the Bundle Protocol in space:

• The Saratoga project at the University of Surrey, which was the first to test the bundle protocol in space on the UK-DMC Disaster Monitoring Constellation satellite in 2008.<ref>Use of the Delay-Tolerant Networking Bundle Protocol from Space, L. Wood et al., Conference paper IAC-08-B2.3.10, 59th International Astronautical Congress, Glasgow, September 2008.</ref><ref>UK-DMC satellite first to transfer sensor data from space using 'bundle' protocol, press release, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, 11 September 2008.</ref><ref>CLEO Orbital Internet earns Time Magazine award, Robin Wolstenholme, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd space blog, 14 November 2008.</ref>
• NASA JPL's Deep Impact Networking (DINET) Experiment on board the Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft.<ref>A Better Network for Outer Space, Brittany Sauser, MIT Technology Review, 27 October 2008.</ref><ref>NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet, NASA press release 08-298, 18 November 2008.</ref>

References

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External links

• SpaceRef.com - Focus On the InterPlanetary Internet
• HowStuffWorks.com - How Interplanetary Internet Will Work
• On The Edge - Interplanetary Internet
• IEEE Spectrum