Nasa and the European Space Agency have successfully used their experimental interplanetary internet system to control a Lego robot on Earth from the International Space Station.
Sunita Williams, commander of Expedition 33 aboard the ISS, used the Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol to drive a little Lego robot at the European Space Operations Centre in Germany to demonstrate the protocol's use as a method of controlling technology on a planet's surface from orbit.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/09/space-lego-controller
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