http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-02-13-iii-launch_x.htm
In a sign of cosmic communications to come, last week mission controllers sent signals to a Mars-orbiting European spacecraft, which relayed the instructions to NASA's Spirit rover on the surface, and a signal was returned to Earth back along the same path.
It was the initial transmission across what could be called the first-generation Interplanetary International Internet.
"We have an international interplanetary communications network established at Mars," said Jennifer Trosper, Spirit mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
--------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
