NASA Wants New Space Net To Sustain Big Data Dumps; Moon and Mars Trips 63
coondoggie writes "What kind of network can support future commercial and government space trips around Earth and support bigger distances to the moon and Mars? NASA is in the process of exploring exactly what technology will be needed beyond 2022 in particular to support future space communication and navigation. The agency recently issued a Request for Information (RFI) to begin planning for such a new architecture."
space trips around Earth?? (Score:2, Insightful)
Big plans (Score:4, Insightful)
NASA sure does dream big, considering they can barely even get to LEO these days. Their launch capacity has been diminishing steadily for the past 40 years. Thank goodness it's not entirely up to them anymore.
Re:Big plans (Score:5, Insightful)