HN794: How the Bundle Protocol Enables Interplanetary Networking

From The Everything Feed - All Packet Pushers Pods Packet Pushers Team

How might we get network traffic from Earth to a lunar base? Or Mars? Or to spaceships carrying astronauts or probes exploring space? And how do we get it back? The problem, among other things, is latency. The answer isn’t TCP/IP. The answer is…complicated. On today’s Heavy Networking we explore the challenges of getting packets... Read more »