Put into operation the first permanent web site, located in space. It is located on board the International Space Station (ISS). New software allows you to transfer data from space are not using the phone, and using the Internet. In an era of global networks and the information obtained on request, a team of space station still has to send and receive data on a schedule. The new system recently installed on the ISS, astronauts will soon enable more freely exchange data with the Earth and other space stations, creating what could be called "interplanetary internet".

The system, consisting of computer and modules for scientific experiments, non-profit organization owned by BioServe Space Technologies, at the end of May, it was downloaded the necessary software. Interplanetary network has already begun to benefit: using the new software on the Earth was handed over to the image of crystals of salts formed in a free fall. Data transfer rate of the interplanetary network of approximately four times higher than in the transmission of classical methods, and if the data at the time of transfer have been lost, then later, the system automatically transmits the lost data.

The first system uses long-distance, was in November 2008, when the computers on Earth and the satellite Epoxies, belonging to NASA, imitate the transfer of data from Mars to Earth. For interplanetary network DTN (Delay tolerant networking; network tolerant to delay) is a protocol which, unlike the terrestrial TCP / IP, is able to work steadily, despite the delay, disruption and disconnection that may occur in space. When using the TCP / IP data transmitted from one computer to another is lost in the breakage of connection and relationship must be maintained until all the data will not be sent. But in space, such an approach, at least inexpediency. Network DTN circumvents this problem: each node of the network stores the information until the can not find another site that can get it. Data is transferred along the chain, they must submit only once, and then the network itself will deliver data to the destination.

NASA believes that the DTN protocol will be fully ready for use in future spacecraft by the end of 2011. ISS will serve as a test platform for an ideal space protocol will help identify and resolve any errors. Later this year, planned to station a second interplanetary internet site. NASA is also discussing the possibility of adding new nodes in the network of European and Japanese modules of the station. "This is a really good opportunity to demonstrate how these protocols can improve communications in space”.