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Using Internet nodes and routers onboard satellites
Author(s) -
Wood L.,
Ivancic W.,
Hodgson D.,
Miller E.,
Conner B.,
Lynch S.,
Jackson C.,
da Silva Curiel A.,
Cooke D.,
Shell D.,
Walke J.,
Stewart D.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of satellite communications and networking
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.388
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1542-0981
pISSN - 1542-0973
DOI - 10.1002/sat.870
Subject(s) - payload (computing) , router , computer science , satellite , internetworking , the internet , low earth orbit , ground segment , core router , communications satellite , computer network , operating system , aerospace engineering , engineering , network packet
An Internet router was integrated into the UK‐DMC remote‐sensing satellite as a secondary experimental payload. This commercial product has been orbiting in space for over three years. We describe the integration of the router and satellite and the successful on‐orbit testing of the router, which took place using the Virtual Mission Operations Center (VMOC) application as part of a larger systems internetworking exercise. Placing this Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit (CLEO) onboard a small satellite is one step towards extending the terrestrial networking model to the near‐Earth space environment as part of a merged space–ground architecture. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.