Interplanetary internet gets permanent home in space | New Scientist

By Rachael Courtland, New Scientist, Posted 07/06/09

Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17416-interplanetary-internet-gets-perm...

"The interplanetary internet now has its first permanent node in space, aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The new software will make sending data from space ...more like using the web. In the modern era of the web and information on demand, teams still have to schedule times to send and receive data from space missions. But the newly installed system aboard the ISS, developed by BioServe Space Technologies, could one day allow data to flow between Earth, spacecraft, and astronauts automatically, creating what is being dubbed the "interplanetary internet".