Delay-Tolerant Networking work:
Saratoga Bundle Protocol work Interplanetary Internet work HTTP-DTN

Work done with colleagues at NASA Glenn Research Center and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.

IP on Mars.

We have done considerable work in testing the Internet in space.

With the CLEO Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit, we demonstrated use of the Internet Protocol in space and integration with the terrestrial Internet. We are the first to test IPv6 in space.

Using computers onboard the UK-DMC satellite, we are the first to test Interplanetary Internet concepts, which the Bundle Protocol is proposed for, from space -- and we did so using the Internet Protocol, bringing the Interplanetary Internet and terrestrial Internet together.

Using Saratoga, we are the first to conduct Bundle Protocol transfers from space, running tests in January and August 2008 - as noted on Slashdot.

• Experience with delay-tolerant networking from orbit, Will Ivancic, Wesley M. Eddy, Lloyd Wood, James Northam and Chris Jackson, submitted to the International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, special issue for best papers of ASMS 2008, for publication.
• CLEO Orbital Internet earns Time Magazine award, Robin Wolstenholme, Surrey Satellite Technology space blog, 14 November 2008.
• TIME's Best Inventions of 2008: #9 The Orbital Internet, Jeremy Caplan et al., Time Magazine, vol. 179 no. 19, 10 November 2008.
• Bits in space, Philip Baczewski, Network Connection, Benchmarks Online, University of North Texas, October 2008.
• Use of the Delay-Tolerant Networking Bundle Protocol from Space, Lloyd Wood, Will Ivancic, Wesley M. Eddy, Dave Stewart, James Northam, Chris Jackson and Alex da Silva Curiel, 59th International Astronautical Congress, Glasgow, 30 September 2008.
• Killer ap, In Orbit, Frank Morring, Jr. (ed.), Aviation Week and Space Technology, 29 September 2008, p. 18.
• Delay-tolerant networking tested, Joab Jackson, Government Computer News, 24 September 2008.
• Spaced-out Internet, Physics Buzz, Physics Central, 12 September 2008.
• Tests underway of interplanetary internet, Matthew Sparkes, PC Pro, 12 September 2008.
• UK-DMC satellite first to transfer sensor data from space using 'bundle' protocol, SSTL press release, 11 September 2008.
• Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Network Testing Using a LEO Satellite, Will Ivancic, Wesley M. Eddy, Lloyd Wood, Dave Stewart, Chris Jackson, James Northam and Alex da Silva Curiel, Eighth Annual NASA Earth Science Technology conference (ESTC 2008), University of Maryland, June 2008.
• Space-base DTN using a Commercially Available Low Earth Orbiting Satellite, Will Ivancic, slideset presented at the IETF 71 IRTF DTN research group meeting, March 2008 (audio recording from IETF 71 sessions).
• Using Saratoga with a Bundle Agent as a Convergence Layer for Delay-Tolerant Networking, Lloyd Wood, Wesley M. Eddy, Will Ivancic, Jim McKim and Chris Jackson, work in progress as an internet-draft, version -06 submitted to the IETF IRTF, October 2009.

Articles placing our bundle-in-space testing in context with later NASA deep-space bundle tests:

• Interplanetary Internet passes test, Alan Boyle, Cosmic Log, MSNBC, 19 November 2008.
• NASA stretches the internet 20 million miles, Matthew Sparkes, PC Pro, 19 November 2008.
• NASA testet Internet im All (in German), golem.de, 19 November 2008.