Networking in Space: Or The Longest Ethernet Cord Ever

Russianhaxor · #1 06-03-2009

This seems like quite a lofty project but it seems pretty cool.

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Today in space technology Honeywell announced the specifications of the networking equipment to be used in the Orion project.

For those of you that do not know what the Orion Project is all about let me explain. In the 60s and through to the mid 70s the US had a tremendous push to get a man on the moon before the then Soviet Union. To do this the National Aeronautics and Space Administration came up with a very daring and creative plan. They were going to launch a vehicle into space that was capable of going to the moon, landing and then returning under its own power this was the Nova Project. This was what Dr. Wernher Von Braun believed anyway. It was a young engineer named Tom Dolan that looked over all of the data and concluded that it was impractical to try a direct ascent. He came up with an idea for the use of two space craft one to make the journey to the moon and one to land on the moon. This was called Lunar Orbit Rendezvous [LOR] became the principal that would be used to send the first person to the moon and the Apollo program was born.

More about this project...(including other links about it)
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...cord-ever.aspx

Kal-EL · #2 06-03-2009

Streaming HD Bandwidth, kool.