Posted by tourdemars to Interplanetary Internet at December 10, 2003 12:00 PM

Well, they’ve been putting hotspots everywhere else. San Mateo, Calif.-based Tropos Networks reports that NASA has successfully tested its 5510 Wi-Fi Cell equipment at a research site in Arizona’s Meteor Crater, where the agency tests technologies for interplanetary deployment. With the increased use of remote instruments in interplanetary exploration, most notably the small, mobile Sojourner rover deployed with the Mars Pathfinder mission, NASA is evaluating ways of networking several devices operating within a relatively short range of a landing site — which sounds a lot like a Wi-Fi hotspot.