据俄新社报道,2012年11月9日NASA宣布,其与欧空局测试了一个“行星际”互联网信道,可能未来某一天能实现从轨道控制行星表面的设备。其中实验的一部分是,国际空间站乘员利用一台NASA研制的便携式电脑操控了一个位于德国欧洲太空运行中心的小型“乐高”(LEGO)机器人。此次演示验证表明,利用新通信基础设施从轨道航天器向地面机 According to the report of the Russian agency, on November 9, 2012, NASA announced that it has tested an “interplanetary” Internet channel with ESA and may one day be able to control orbital equipment on the surface of the planet. Part of the experiment was that a crew at NASA used a laptop developed by NASA to operate a small LEGO robot at the European Space Operations Center in Germany. The demonstrations demonstrate that the new communications infrastructure is utilized from orbiting spacecraft to ground machines