NASA Fires Up Experimental Space Internet For Robot Control

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Posted by timothy on Thursday November 08, 2012 @04:40PM
from the vint-cerf-is-up-there-even-now-controlling-it dept.

coondoggie writes "NASA said today it had teamed with the European Space Agency to successfully test an experimental version of an 'interplanetary Internet' to control a robot on the ground in Germany from a laptop onboard the International Space Station."

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Ping (Score:2, Funny)

by Sla$hPot (1189603) writes: on Thursday November 08, 2012 @04:55PM (#41923991)

Whats is the ping time for Proxima Centauri gonna be?
(2260080*2)s + ~10ms ?

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Robots, space ? (Score:4, Funny)

by captain_dope_pants (842414) writes: on Thursday November 08, 2012 @04:58PM (#41924053)

If we're controlling robots from space then I for one welcome our new robotic underlords.

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Re:It's not a separate internet (Score:4, Funny)

by nospam007 (722110) * writes: on Thursday November 08, 2012 @05:03PM (#41924139)

"Jeesh, it is a separate network, not a new "internet"."
You mean I cannot spam the robot with lubrication-Ads?

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