Google and NASA are partnering up to let space beings ( and astronauts ) wander the web from up in domain . Google VP Vint Cerf and NASA ’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have started working together to create a standardized net for infinite , which can finally put back the one - time - economic consumption radio equipment organisation we ’ve been shooting up there since the seventies . Communicating in space presents a bunch of problems — the Earth ’s rotation causes senders and receiver to be constantly changing positions , and the long space causes equally long delays . Our current radio - based connection is tailored to almost every unexampled mission , mean that older equipment ca n’t be repurposed for newer shuttles . Cerf , who more or less co - created the cyberspace , is now figuring out new protocols that ’ll work in the final frontier . The project , called Interplanetary Internet , will be tested aboard the International Space Station in 2009 . If it work out , space mission in the future will be able to use the same systems , at long last making communicating from above much , much cheaper and comfortable . I wonder what their Ping River rates will be . [ Technology Review ]
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