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Airicist
19th December 2013, 20:35
Article "December 24 Marks 50th Anniversary Of NASA’s Deep Space Network (http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1113031878/nasa-deep-space-network-turns-fifty-121913)"
December 19, 2013
Airicist
7th June 2014, 16:59
https://youtu.be/OS5qi01ZTrI
First Video Transmitted Via Laser Beam From Space Station
Published on Jun 6, 2014
The Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) aboard the International Space Station transmitted a video titled "Hello, World" to Earth. Mission manager Matt Abrahamson of JPL explains how it works.
Airicist
1st August 2015, 12:22
https://youtu.be/I-QhM18OQZE
Skywatcher Captures Video Of X-37B Unmanned Military Space Plane | Video
Published on Mar 27, 2014
Skywatcher Kevin Fetter of Brockville, Ontario in Canada shot this March 9, 2014 video of the U.S. military's X-37B space plane passing by the moon. The robotic US Air Force space plane surpassed 470 days in orbit, an endurance record, in March 2014.
Airicist
30th November 2017, 11:41
https://youtu.be/GM9v2RVuoGU
Future-proofing the Interplanetary Internet
Published on Nov 29, 2017
NASA looks to Disruption Tolerant Networking to help communicate with satellites and spacecraft over long, interplanetary distances. Unlike the familiar computer-to-computer IP connection, the Disruption Tolerant Networking bundles data and transmits as many bundles as it can when a communication path opens. If a bundle fails to transmit, it goes into storage and waits for the next communication path to open, then sends it. If the bundles were all part of a single file, the file can be reassembled at the final destination.