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References
- ↑ M. Fouquet and M. Sweeting, UoSAT-12 minisatellite for high performance Earth observation at low cost, proceedings of IAF '96.
- ↑ K. Hogie, et al., Using standard Internet Protocols and applications in space, Computer Networks, special issue on Interplanetary Internet, vol. 47 no. 5, pp. 603-650, April 2005.
- ↑ K. Hogie, et al., Putting more Internet nodes in space Archived 2008-11-16 at the Wayback Machine , CSC World, Computer Sciences Corporation, pp. 21-23, April/June 2006.
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