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'''Interplanetary Internet or Interplanetary Networking''' is spaced-based network first in its infantile stages of development, with only a few nodes as of May 2013.<ref name="wired">[http://www.wired.com/2013/05/vint-cerf-interplanetary-internet/ Google's Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the Interplanetary Internet], Wired.com. Published 2013 May 6. Retrieved 2016 April 17.</ref> One of its goals, amongst others, is to connect spacecrafts, satellites, rovers, and orbiters of different planets and comets for the exchange of scientific data.<ref name="ieee">[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7417313&isnumber=7416057&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fstamp%2Fstamp.jsp%3Ftp%3D%26arnumber%3D7417313%26isnumber%3D7416057 The Interplanetary Internet Implemented on the GENI Testbed], IEEE.org. Published 2015 December 6. Retrieved 2016 April 17.</ref>
==Early Stages==
The project first began in 1997, after [[Google]]'s [[Vince Cerf]] and [[Bob Kahn]] had consultations with individuals at [[NASA]]'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The two initially considered TCP/IP protocols, and soon realized that while those were sufficient for communications on Earth, they were insufficient for communications between Earth and Mars.<ref name="wired"></ref>
Cerf has called the existing system "the front end of what could be an evolving and expanding interplanetary backbone."<ref name="wired"></ref>
==Early Stages==
The project first began in 1997, after [[Google]]'s [[Vince Cerf]] and [[Bob Kahn]] had consultations with individuals at [[NASA]]'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The two initially considered TCP/IP protocols, and soon realized that while those were sufficient for communications on Earth, they were insufficient for communications between Earth and Mars.<ref name="wired"></ref>
Cerf has called the existing system "the front end of what could be an evolving and expanding interplanetary backbone."<ref name="wired"></ref>