Comments on: New Internet goes to space, comes back to Earth

NASA is using a comet-watching spacecraft to test new interplanetary networking protocols. The concepts are also being applied to similarly flaky networks back home.

[Penguinisto]

Cool... I was wondering how they'd get around the lag and lack of multiple paths.

[MafiaPenguin]

THAT"S AWESOME!

Wow, if that works, wow!

[dascha1]

I'm curious why my first post of "manual vs. speech" was removed? If you had simply used a google engine to search, you would've seen the other side which is how the Air Force and Privatized Space Ventures of UAV's are proceeding with its agenda, with a gap, or newly found bridge, of NLP to push things forward. it basically uses a Zipf's Law algorithm to apply Manual Task Frequency and Speech Rank of how these funded ventures are proceeding. But I guess we probably won't see the Virgin label on any of this any time soon, right?

[rafe]

It probably wasn't clear from the comment itself that it was relevant to the story, so it got reported and then removed.

[dascha1]

Thanks for clarifying... I suppose a responsible user would've asked for clarification as I had done. It does strike me as censorship that if one expresses an idea and it gets reported that the poster could be asked to clarify FIRST, and then if there's no response then it gets edited/removed. I have a had numerous occasions out of my hundreds of posts at CNET, and the millions of other posts your message boards has received, where I have found things offensive, crude, or foul language, but have never seen those comments I've reported removed. Maybe I've just been unlucky to ensure what I think is a fair post.

[gadget_saavik]

The name name of the comet that was impacted in 2005 is Tempel 1 not Talent 1 and in 2010 the spacecraft will be exploring comet Hartley 2 not going back to Tempel 1.

EPOXI Mission website:
http://epoxi.umd.edu/

[rafe]

Fixing now, thanks.

[DivineOracle]

Voyant International Corp - http://www.voyant.net

These guys have a stable of tech that can make DTN a success. They already have a cutting edge web/file acceleration tech (Rocketstream) and have also started manufacturing smart white space radios (WSR).

DTN can be combined with their Rocketstream and WSR technologies to create smart DTN devices that perform the following:

1. Detect if other network/devices are available (Voyant WSR - software-defined radio technology, spectrum-sensing)

2. If network not available, store packets (Rocketstream - data compression, encryption)

3. If network is available, connect to the network, send packets in bursts (Rocketstream - data acceleration, compression, encryption, CRC checks, acknowledge)