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.
Comment on NASA uses laser to send video of a cat named Taters over 19 million miles
Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What strikes me is not the bandwidth achieved but the precision of the technology to aim the laser. 19 million miles is a great distance to successfully aim a beam of light. As this technology develops, real time communications with objects in orbit like around Mars will be possible.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 9 months ago
ooterness@lemmy.world 9 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 9 months ago
I think the issue, again will be date and time.
DDMMYYYY + Planet + Orbit?
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
software developers are seething
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
UTC and forget
Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 9 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.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I presume that we’re not yet concerned with what the Ansible tech awoke in the vast emptiness between, hmm?
gens@programming.dev 9 months ago
The beam is reeeealy wide by the time it gets there. Still a great achivement, though.