{"id":349,"date":"2012-11-15T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2012-11-15T11:44:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:44:35","slug":"possibly-coolest-use-for-an-nxt-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/possibly-coolest-use-for-an-nxt-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Possibly Coolest Use for an NXT Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/images\/20121115-nxt-dtn.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"NXT Robot controlled by astronauts on the ISS.\" \/><strong>NASA, ESA Use Experimental Interplanetary Internet to Test Robot From International Space Station.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nYes, it&#8217;s a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT!<\/p>\n<p>November 8, 2012<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully have used an experimental version of interplanetary Internet to control an educational rover from the International Space Station. The experiment used NASA&#8217;s Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol to transmit messages and demonstrate technology that one day may enable Internet-like communications with space vehicles and support habitats or infrastructure on another planet.<\/p>\n<p>Space station Expedition 33 commander Sunita Williams in late October used a NASA-developed laptop to remotely drive a small LEGO robot at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. The European-led experiment used NASA&#8217;s DTN to simulate a scenario in which an astronaut in a vehicle orbiting a planetary body controls a robotic rover on the planet&#8217;s surface. <\/p>\n<p>Full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2012\/nov\/HQ_12-391_DTN.html\" title=\"NASA, ESA Use Experimental Interplanetary Internet to Test Robot From International Space Station \" target=\"_blank\" class=\"extlink\">nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA, ESA Use Experimental Interplanetary Internet to Test Robot From International Space Station. Yes, it&#8217;s a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT! November 8, 2012 WASHINGTON &#8212; NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully have used an experimental version of interplanetary Internet to control an educational rover from the International Space Station. The experiment used NASA&#8217;s Disruption &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/possibly-coolest-use-for-an-nxt-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Possibly Coolest Use for an NXT Ever!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics","category-tech-nonsense"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1yjzF-5D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}