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EPISODE · Nov 9, 2021 · 16 MIN

S1E7 Will Indian space tourists have internet?

from Imagined Tomorrow · host Shreya Dasgupta

Show notes: In Episode 6, we explored if we could travel to space from India. In this bonus episode, we hear what the future of the internet could be like - in our solar system. Will we be able to watch Netflix on Mars, stream Youtube videos, chat with family and friends on Earth and livestream? Episode features Dr. Abhijeet Borkar, an astrophysicist at the Astronomy Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences Imagined Tomorrow is created and hosted by Shreya Dasgupta. Intro and outro music is by Abhijit Shylanath. Abhishek Madan is the official feedback-provider of script and sound. Get in touch via Twitter, or email [email protected]. Episode music Interlude music bits from Pixabay. Includes pieces by nojisuma and ZakharValaha. Episode artwork Imagined Tomorrow logo by Abhishek Madan. If you want to delve further: How one stupid tweet blew up Justine Sacco’s Life. Read here First live tweet from space. NASA extends the World Wide Web out into space. Read here The internet in space? Slow as dial up. Read here NASA Laser Communications Innovations: A Timeline. Read here NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon. Read here Nokia selected by NASA to build first ever cellular network on the Moon. Read here SpaceX will build Starlink-like constellation around Mars, its president says. Read here Transcript on Imagined Tomorrow 

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