FromJules Verne’s Moon landing dream in 1865

to “Star Wars” now

Manfred SCHNEPS

sneps@mail.ru

June 3, 2014

SPb, ITU Kaleidoscope-2014

Contents

Part 1. On History of Space Missions

Part 2. Star War from telco standards view

Part 1.On History of Space Missions

Jules Verne’s Moon landing dream in 1865

From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club attempts to build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch three people to the Moon.

Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.

Red Square, Moscow, April 14, 1961

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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, on July 20, 1969

Apollo 11 communications (in S-range)

259.7 and 296.8 MHz S-range 2101.8 and 2282.5 MHz

Voice, data, video, EVCS (Extravehicular communications system)

New York, August 13, 1969

Apollo-Soyuz mission, July 15, 1975 - the first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975)Американский экипаж: Т Стаффорд, В Бранд, Д Слейтон.

Советский экипаж: Алексей Леонов, Валерий Кубасов.

Part 2. Star War from telco standards view

Babel tower as a telco world:

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563)

Babel tower

The story of the city of Babel is recorded in the Bible. Everyone on earth then spoke the same language. People make bricks and build a tower with its top in the sky.

God came down to look at the city and tower,and remarked that as one people with one language, nothing that they sought would be out of their reach.

God confounded their speech, so that they could not understand each other, and they stopped building the city.

Babel tower crash due too many languages (communications standards)

Strategic Defense Initiative U.S. President Ronald Reagan, March 23, 1983

• The ambitious initiative was widely criticized as unrealistic

• In 1987, the American Physical Society concluded that a global shield such as "Star Wars" was not only impossible with existing technology, but that ten more years of research was needed to learn whether it might ever be feasible.

• However, the United States now holds a significant advantage in the field of comprehensive advanced missile defense systems.

GIG infrastructure (Joint Vision 2020)

GIG Internetworking Convergence Layer

Advanced Intelligent Network (Joint Vision 2010)

U.S. Defence Switched Network (2013)SS7 = No7 Signaling System

GIG (Global Information Grid) Dilemma

“Babel tower” of telecom: could we build it or

the unique “All-over-IP”-world is one great mystification

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