HN794: How the Bundle Protocol Enables Interplanetary Networking

29/08/2025 1h 3min
HN794: How the Bundle Protocol Enables Interplanetary Networking

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How might we get network traffic from Earth to a lunar base? Or Mars? Or to spaceships carrying astronauts or probes exploring space? And how do we get it back? The problem, among other things, is latency. The answer isn’t TCP/IP. The answer is…complicated. On today’s Heavy Networking we explore the challenges of getting packets... »

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