coondoggie brings news that NASA has announced it will team with Machine-to-Machine Intelligence Corp. to produce small satellites, called ‘nanosats,’ weighing between 11 and 110 pounds. The satellites will work together in ‘constellations’ and facilitate networking in space. According to NASA’s press release, it will ‘develop a fifth generation telecommunications and networking system for Internet protocol-based and related services.’ We’ve discussed miniature satellites in the past.
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