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The weekly newsletter for Fed2 by ibgamesEARTHDATE: January 24, 2010
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REAL LIFE NEWS: TWEETS... IN... SPAAAAAACE!by HazedThe first tweet has been sent from space. A giant leap for social networks, or something. US astronaut Timothy Creamer sent the message from the International Space Station on Friday morning. The ISS had just received a software upgrade to allow real-time web access. His tweet was exactly 140 characters long - the limit for messages sent using Twitter. It said: Very meaningful, I'm sure. But the significant thing is the new Crew Support LAN (which NASA dubs the "ultimate wireless connection") provides them with a decent connection for the first time - 3 Mbps up and 10Mbps down. Seems bizarre that they hadn't had decent comms links before! |
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