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A Cisco Internet router is orbiting onboard the UK-DMC satellite as a secondary experimental payload, and has been tested successfully. Testing a router onboard a satellite is one step towards extending the terrestrial networking model to the near-Earth space environment as part of a merged space-ground architecture. Here, we describe the integration of the router and satellite and on-orbit testing, and suggest possible future steps combining Internet and satellite.
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A more comprehensive later summary of this work is in: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sat.870 Using Internet nodes and routers onboard satellites, special issue on Space Networks, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, vol. 25 issue 2, pp. 195-216, March/April 2007.
Dr Lloyd Wood
University of Surrey
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This page is a summary of: Testing a router onboard a satellite in space, January 2005, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET),
DOI: 10.1049/ic:20050023.
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