The Amateur Radio satellite OSCAR-36 (UoSAT-12) and the UK-DMC satellite were used for the first tests in space of the "Interplanetary Internet"
Lloyd Wood PhD, MSc, MEng, CEng MIET of the University of Surrey Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR) will be giving a talk to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium about this exciting pioneering work in bringing the Interplanetary Internet and terrestrial Internet together.
His talk will describe how pioneering tests of computer networking on Surrey Satellite Technology's satellites (UoSAT-12 and UK-DMC) were able to integrate the satellites with the terrestrial Internet, and then conduct the first tests in space of the "Interplanetary Internet" that is designed for NASA's deep space missions.
The talk takes palce 16:10 - 16:50 BST on Satuday, July 30, there will be a live webstream at http://www.batc.tv/ch_live.php?ch=3
IPv6 in space http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/dtn/interplanetary-internet
Delay-Tolerant Networking work: http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/dtn/
John Lloyd http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CCSR/profiles?s_id=5839&
The AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium to be held July 30-31 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, England. The event is open to all.
Either day passes or full packages comprising overnight accommodation and meals are available. For futher information see http://www.uk.amsat.org/colloquium-2011/
The Colloquium schedule, times in BST (GMT+1), is at http://tinyurl.com/2011ColloquiumSchedule
The Spring issue of the AMSAT-UK newsletter OSCAR News can be downloaded free at http://www.uk.amsat.org/on_193_final.pdf
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