The Interplanetary Internet for Observation and Monitoring of the Solar System ¿ Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • © 2022 by the authors.The solar system is still uncommunicated and unknown for humankind. To acquire more knowledge about the solar system, we send satellites and rovers to explore those planets; however, it is costly and takes a lot of effort. Soil retains information about the environment of celestial bodies, and we can process that information to make decisions about future infrastructure settlements that could provide advantages for the interplanetary Internet. The interplanetary Internet communications must be scalable, interoperable, secure, and easy for data transmission. However, before thinking about carrying out soil analysis through surface exploration, we can see that the first step is to analyze it using sensing satellites studying the structure of their data collection orbits through intelligent vision. In this paper we propose the use of cameras mounted on sensing satellites for the soil analysis during orbit (high-resolution, infrared, spectral, optical) for general scanning of surface elements with AI postprocessing, and mass spectrometer for spectroscopy. This equipment will analyze the chemical composition of the surfaces, the magnetic field lines, and the material radiation, detect rocks and gas elements, and identify the surface characteristics, among others. In this paper, we discuss how to develop the architecture of an interplanetary Internet physical platform with space-to-ground observations and measurements. A satellite orbiting a celestial body will become a sensor node with physical layers designed with relays and a modular setup, as well as a data transport method and location estimation sensing system, as a basis for the interplanetary Internet system. The design of the interplanetary Internet must consider the information from the analysis and observation of celestial bodies¿ variables and parameters, as a fundamental flow of information that must be transported through the network to be further analyzed and used.

publication date

  • January 1, 2022