Interplanetary International Internet Launched

Posted by tourdemars to Interplanetary Internet at February 12, 2004 12:00 PM

In a sign of cosmic communications to come, last week mission controllers sent signals to a Mars-orbiting European spacecraft, which relayed the instructions to NASA's Spirit rover on the surface, and a signal was returned to Earth back along the same path. It was the initial transmission across what could be called the first-generation Interplanetary International Internet.