Using Internet Nodes & Routers Onboard Satellites

By: Lloyd Wood, Will Ivancic, Dave Hodgson, Eric Miller, Brett Conner, Scott Lynch, Chris Jackson, Alex da Silva Curiel, Dan Shell, Jon Walke and Dave Stewart, Using Internet nodes and routers onboard satellites, special issue on Space Networks, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, volume 25 issue 2, pp. 195-216, March/April 2007.

Article Summary
Putting this Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit (CLEO) onboard a small satellite is one step towards extending the terrestrial networking model to the near-Earth space environment as part of a merged space-ground architecture.

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Internet to Orbit

By Daniel Floreani and Lloyd Wood, Cisco Systems Packet Magazine, Vol. 17 No. 3, Third Quarter 2005, pp. 19-23.

Article Summary
This paper describes how IP routing technology can be used onboard satellites, and why this is a good idea.

Internet to Orbit (PDF - 333 KB)

Enabling Warfighters to Task Space Payloads

Paper by Lloyd Wood, Dan Shell, Will Ivancic, Brett Conner, Eric Miller, Dave Stewart and Dave Hodgson, Milcom 2005, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 17-20 October 2005.

Article Summary
The combination of the Cisco Router in Low-Earth Orbit and Virtual Mission Operations Center initiatives provides a framework to define, test, and field a 'system of systems' based on Internet Protocol (IP) and capable of supporting secure distributed mission operations of IP-based platforms and sensors.

Enabling Warfighters to Task Space Payloads (PDF - 399 KB)

Secure, Network-Centric Operations of a Space-Based Asset

Cisco Router in Low-Earth Orbit and Virtual Mission Operations Center (VMOC) By Will Ivancic, Phil Paulsen, Dave Stewart, Dan Shell, Lloyd Wood, Chris Jackson, Dave Hodgson, James Northam, Neville Bean, Eric Miller, Mark Graves and Lance Kurisaki, NASA technical memorandum TM-2005-213556, May 2005.

Article Summary
A Cisco Systems, Inc. Internet router was launched into low-Earth orbit onboard the UK-DMC, the disaster-monitoring satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL, Guildford, UK). This router has since been successfully tested and demonstrated by an international government and private-sector collaboration, showing how IP can be used to communicate with satellite payloads in space.

Secure, Network-Centric Operations of a Space-Based Asset (PDF - 3.04 MB)

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Cisco Router in Low Earth Orbit - NASA Technical Memorandum on IPv6/IPsec Testing

W. Ivancic, D. Stewart, L. Wood, C. Jackson, J. Northam and J. Wilhelm, IPv6 and IPsec Tests of a Space-Based Asset, the Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit (CLEO), NASA technical memo TM-2008-215203, May 2008.

Article Summary
On Thursday, 29 March 2007, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cisco Systems and SSTL performed the first configuration and demonstration of IPsec and IPv6 onboard a satellite in low Earth orbit.

IPv6 and IPsec Tests of a Space-Based Asset, the Cisco Router in Low Earth Orbit (CLEO) (PDF - 1.6 MB)

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