It looks like an "internet" in space is shaping up. In a much earlier thread on this list, there was a presentation about the moon<->earth architectures and standards being sorted out. It was an awful looking amalgam of every technology we have available today from lte to wifi to the bundle protocol and everything in between. I can't find the site that pointed at the specs now (?)
Right now it's reminding me of the bad ole days, where you'd find me on ..leo!LunarGW!rhysling_crater!dtaht. And then there's this that went by yesterday: "DIU’s hybrid space architecture would use commercial communication systems as transport pipes to move data collected by imaging satellites and deliver it quickly to government users. The concept assumes that commercial satellites will talk to each other via interoperable links. Shimmin said his office awards contracts to commercial companies with incentives that “gently encourage different vendors to cooperate together.” By doing that, “we’ve created a much more collaborative relationship with our vendors.” DIU is working with the Space Force and the Air Force Research Laboratory on the hybrid architecture. The project is intended to support Pentagon efforts to connect ground, air, maritime and space systems, a concept known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2. The backbone of the hybrid network will be DoD’s Transport Layer, a constellation to be deployed by the Space Development Agency, he said. “We want to augment it with the commercial communications architectures that are coming online to proliferate the internet in space, get every satellite talking to every other satellite, relaying through ground stations regardless of who owns the ground stations, they should all function as routers.” The thinking in JADC2 is “to embrace multiple providers so we don’t have a single point of failure,” said Shimmin. " https://spacenews.com/starlinks-market-dominance-affecting-dods-hybrid-network-plans/ -- This song goes out to all the folk that thought Stadia would work: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dtaht_the-mushroom-song-activity-6981366665607352320-FXtz Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
