Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM
Monday, September 20, 2010 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium
Adrian Hooke
"Interplanetary Internet: Current Status And Challenges"
ABSTRACT -- This talk will review the past decade of development of space internetworking, starting with DARPA studies in 2000-2002 and culiminating with NASA's current project to mature the new "Disruption Tolerant Networking" (DTN) protocol suite for use on international space missions as early as 2015. Current flight testing of the new protocols in space will be described, as well as their implications for establishing a new model of space communications based on a platform of internetworking capabilities that are roughly analogous to extending the reach of the Earth's Internet across space.
SPEAKER -- Adrian Hooke is active in the international Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) as Chairman of the CCSDS Engineering Steering Group and is also Manager of Networking Architecture, Technology and Standards in the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) office at NASA Headquarters, where he currently is on a special assignment.
From 1966-1969 Adrian worked in US industry as a member of the Kennedy Space Center launch team for the Apollo 9, 10, 11 and 12 Lunar Modules. Joining JPL in 1969, he was a member of the flight control teams for the Mariner 9 and 10 missions to Mars, Venus and Mercury. After working on the Voyager onboard data system and leading the design of the SEASAT end-to-end data system, he became a staff member of the European Space Agency in 1976 to work on the flight operations architecture for the Shuttle-SpaceLab program. Rejoining JPL in 1977, he focused on the development of new technology in the area of standardized space data communications protocols. He is one of the founders of the CCSDS and has led the development of international standards for Packet Telemetry, Packet Telecommand, Advanced Orbiting Systems and the "SCPS" extension of the terrestrial Internet protocol suite into space.
Since 1998 he has been working with Vint Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol suite that is the underpinning of the terrestrial Internet, on the development of the architecture and new data communications protocols for the Interplanetary Internet. He is currently leading the technology development and standardization of the "Disruption Tolerant Networking" (DTN) protocol suite within NASA and the international community.
Adrian holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England. He is registered as a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) with the IEE in London and as a European Engineer (Eur. Ing.) with FEANI in Paris. He has been awarded two NASA Exceptional Service Medals and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal.