“We have now launched a new spacecraft “Luch”. By the end of this year, broadband will be deployed to the Russian connection,” – said Rogozin. According to the head of Roscosmos, will provide independence in this matter will have its own broadband connection, the Russian Internet fully under our control, – reports TASS.
Multifunctional space system relaying “Ray” is designed for information support of space hardware, including ISS, exchange of television news and programmes among telecentres, holding videoconferences, teleconferences, etc.
I Must say that the crew of the ISS for the first time was able to go online in 2010. Access to the world wide web provided by NASA. To use it, astronauts via satellite connected to a computer in Houston how to remote desktop and since it can go online.
by the Way, the Internet ISS not as fast as one would think. Although the station is at an altitude of about 400 km from the Earth, the way that make the data much longer. As experts tell, the first signal from the ISS is sent up to the satellite repeater, situated at an altitude of 35.7 thousand kilometres. And only from there it is transmitted down to a ground station for space communications.
