The Internet has now reached every corner of the world. Moreover, this situation is not limited to the surface of the planet. Going online on a plane has long lost its novelty. Even the International Space Station now has an internet connection.
Space exploration organizations are preparing to take it one step further and make other planets in our solar system connected to the internet. The space internet is not only used for business purposes; It also allows people far away from our world to communicate with their homes. In this article, we will discuss how the space internet works and how it will develop in the future.
WW on the ISS
International Space Station personnel had access to the internet for the first time in 2010. Access service provided by NASA. The astronauts went online by connecting to a computer in Houston in remote desktop mode via a satellite link. This was a safer method: Even if a member of the International Space Station staff opened a malicious link or file, only the computer on Earth would be damaged.
NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer celebrated the arrival of the internet on the International Space Station by posting the first unaided tweet from space:
Russian space internet
It seems that the International Space Station will soon have more than one internet provider: Russia is also preparing to connect its own section of the station to the internet soon. The mission will be carried out by a network of Luch relay satellites; This network is currently being upgraded.
Last year, cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov completed an upgrade to the ISS antenna so it could receive more satellite data. Meanwhile, they broke a new record for Russia in the field of working time outside the vehicle with 8 hours and 12 minutes. According to Roscosmos spokesman cosmonaut Sergey Krikalev, the new equipment has already been tested; The ISS will soon come online via the Luch satellites.
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