Space Internetworking Center (SPICE) was founded in Xanthi, Greece, on September 1st 2010. Its establishment and operation was funded by the European FP-7 Capacities "Research Potential" program [264226, FP7-REGPOT-2010-1]. Scientific and Project coordinator is Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Director of Internetworked Systems Lab and Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Democritus University of Thrace. SPICE advisory board comprises both scientists, such as Prof. Eytan Modiano (MIT), Nestor Peccia (ESA/ESOC) and Scott Burleigh (NASA/JPL), and one member from national and regional authorities. SPICE has already defined a cooperation framework with European Space Agency, NASA and several universities and research institutes, including MIT, University of Cambridge, University of Zurich, Tampere, and Helsinki University of Technology. Currently SPICE coordinates the earth portion (including universities and research laboratories) of CCSDS experimental SPACE DTN backbone.    

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Space Internetworking Center can host eight researchers for a time period of one month top. During that period incoming researchers will work together with researchers from SPICE on various networking topics. Join us!

• 08 May 2012 – Distinguished Speaker Series: "Extending DTN into Earth: A Survey of System Implementations and Application Domains", Dr Artemios G. Vogiatzis, Industrial Systems Institute/RC "Athena"
• 30 Apr 2012 – Colloquium: "Satellite Toolkit (STK): Software to model, analyze and visualize space, defense and intelligence systems", Souzana Makaratzi, MSc Candidate, DUTH
• 17 Apr 2012 – SPICE welcomes Dr Artemios Voyiatzis, researcher at Industrial Systems Institute (ISI), Patra, Greece as a visiting researcher
• 14 Apr 2012 – Bundle Streaming Service (BSS) was released as a part of the ION v3.0 software distribution.
• 26 Mar 2012 – Distinguished Speaker Series: "Satellite Cardsharing Forensics", Ioannis Paschos, Digital Evidence Examiner

1. The design of space protocols that can dynamically adapt to topology changes and communications anomalies, achieving high-rate of data transmission, even in deep-space missions.
2. The interoperability between different communication protocols, e.g. protocols used by ESA and NASA.
3. The dynamic and optimized dissemination of space data to interested institutes and organizations.
4. The utilization of space communications for terrestrial applications, e.g. emergency situations.
5. The unification of space and terrestrial internetworking communications.
6. The deployment of delay tolerant networking for the benefit of terrestrial applications such as energy-saving architectures, social networking, etc.