This article discusses efforts to adapt the QUIC protocol for reliable communication between Earth and deep space, particularly for missions like those involving Mars rovers. It highlights the challenges of deep space networking, such as latency and intermittent connectivity, and details experimental setups to optimize QUIC configurations for these conditions.

Iroh provides an API for establishing fast connections by public key using QUIC protocol, facilitating hole-punching and fallback to public relay servers when necessary. It includes various pre-existing protocols like iroh-blobs for blob transfer and iroh-gossip for publish-subscribe networks, making it easy to implement custom solutions. The library is primarily designed for use with Rust, offering examples and FFI bindings for other languages.