EDITOR'S NOTE

Good Afternoon,

While we're used to breaking national if not global technology scoops here at iTnews, it isn't every day we can boast an interplanetary one!

Today's story by Liz Tay is the first to discuss the testing of a new communication protocol that deals with the time delays of sending messages between objects in space.

Sounds far-fetched? No more so than the bizarre concept of splitting data communication into packets and re-organising them at the destination, without which you wouldn't be receiving this e-mail!

-- Brett Winterford

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