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NASA uses laser to send video of a cat named Taters over 19 million miles (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm wondering if we will need to tweak our Internet protocols to include interplanetary time? I would imagine mirroring would be much more important. Because light can only go so fast.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Yes, the high latency and intermittent connectivity is a big challenge. Delay tolerant networking (DTN) is one good way of solving this problem.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think the issue, again will be date and time.

DDMMYYYY + Planet + Orbit?

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago

software developers are seething

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

UTC and forget

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

I'm sure several OSI layers have already been modified by NASA to suit their needs. But, the protocols will pretty much remain standard.