Us* at night from space (East Sussex/Brighton & Hove/West Sussex)

[Jello Biafra]

How does a Canadian with The Right Stuff, know about little old Brighton? Two things....... there's a lot of dust on his lens and how does he Twitter from up there, when there are places in the English countryside where you can't.

Facepalm!

 

[skipper734]

Hi Chris, how do you get the Broadband signal to down to Earth.



My laptop here onboard communicates to a server in Houston via satellite relay, and that server on the ground is hooked through a computer to the internet. The data rate is very slow, not fast enough to watch video, but perfect for things like Reddit and Twitter. We have the data link about half the time.
No Skype, but when we have the right communications links I can directly access the internet in Mission Control, Houston, and Tweet and do this AMA real-time. We have that link many times, every day. It's a great capability to have, really lets the crew keep in touch.

Thanks Chris, just thought I'd get you to clear that up.

Skipper.