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Space-base DTN using a Commercially Operational Low Earth Orbiting Satellite Satellite Communication 101 (or maybe 1.01) The United Kingdom -Disaster Monitoring Constellation (UK-DMC) satellite is an imaging satellite One of 5 (or 6 or 7 as constellation grows) Commercial Money Making Operation You can request an image (and pay) Polar Orbit approximately once every 100 minutes Satellite is in view of any one ground station for 8 to 14 minutes – hence disruption. Round Trip Time Delay is ~ 100 msec, thus delay is not the issue here (unlike for deep space). UK-DMC Characteristic Onboard experimental Payload, Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit (CLEO) Not Used for DTN Testing Three Solid State Data Recorders 1 with a StrongARM Processor 2 with Motorola MPC8260 PowerPC (We use one of these) RTEMS operating system (POSIX API, BSD sockets) Storage Capacity 1 GByte RAM Operating System Image limit is 1 Mbyte Uplink is 9600 bits per second Downlink is 8.134 Mbps Datalink – Frame Relay/HDLC Network Protocol – IPv4 (could easily run IPv6) Transport Protocol (Saratoga version 0 over UDP) Saratoga version 0 is existing SSTL transport Saratoga version 1 is what is in the Internet Drafts Enhances version 0 to make it more widely usable Costs If DTN code upload DOES NOT disrupt SSTL normal operations $Y US per pass to SSTL If DTN code upload disrupts SSTL normal operations Approximately 10 times $Y US per 24 hours For general use, UK-DMC Satellite cost is $Y US per pass If one uses other ground stations such as Universal Space Networks (USN), cost is: $Y US per pass to SSTL approximately $700 per pass to USN DTN Testbed Number of Possible Tests per Pass DTN Test Plan Goal Demonstrate DTN Bundle Transfer from UK-DMC to SSTL Ground Station Demonstrate that DTN code and general SSTL code can coexist without affecting normal SSTL Operations Reduces costs from 10 times $Y per 24 hours to $Y per pass Configuration UK-DMC acquired a150 Mbyte image over the Gulf of Khambhat, India