>Apparently to be controls by FTP (strange)
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=96&ncid=96&e=1&u=/space/20021218/sc_space/web_enabled_spacecraft__chips_observatory_will_ftp_files_in_from_space

Neat to contrast this news with the news today concerning signals still being received from a Pioneer spacecraft (launched in the '70s?) from 7.5 billion miles away.