Spaceborne Computer-2 is scheduled to launch into orbit on the 15th Northrop Grumman Resupply Mission to Space Station (NG-15) on February 20 and will probably be out there to be used on the International Space Station for the subsequent 2-Three years. The NG-15 spacecraft has been named “SS. Katherine Johnson” in honor of Katherine Johnson, a famed Black, feminine NASA mathematician who was important to the early success of the house program.
Breaking Barriers to Achieve Reliable Computing in Space
The upcoming launch of Spaceborne Computer-2 builds on the confirmed success of its predecessor, Spaceborne Computer, a proof-of-concept that HPE developed and launched in partnership with NASA in 2017 to function on the International Space Station (ISS) for a one-year mission. The purpose was to check if inexpensive, industrial off-the-shelf servers used on earth, however outfitted with purposefully-designed software-based hardening options, can stand up to the shake, rattle and roll of a rocket launch to house, and as soon as there, seamlessly function on the ISS.
The proof-of-concept addressed the necessity for extra dependable computing capabilities on the ISS, or low Earth orbit (LEO), that had been beforehand unattainable to attain as a result of ISS’s harsh setting of zero gravity and excessive ranges of radiation that may injury IT gear required to host computing applied sciences.
Additionally, gaining extra dependable computing on the ISS is simply step one in NASA’s objectives for supporting human house journey to the Moon, Mars and past the place dependable communications is a mission important want.
HPE efficiently completed its one-year mission with Spaceborne Computer and is now set to launch, by way of a sponsorship from the ISS U.S. National Laboratory, an much more superior system, referred to as Spaceborne Computer-2, which is ready to launch this month and be put in on the ISS for the subsequent 2-Three years for wider use.
Accelerating Space Exploration with State-of-the-Art Edge Computing and AI Capabilities
Spaceborne Computer-2 will supply twice as a lot compute velocity with purpose-built edge computing capabilities powered by the HPE Edgeline Converged Edge system and HPE ProLiant server to ingest and course of knowledge from a variety of gadgets, together with satellites and cameras, and course of in real-time.
Spaceborne Computer-2 may even come outfitted with graphic processing models (GPUs) to effectively course of image-intensive knowledge requiring greater picture decision corresponding to photographs of polar ice caps on earth or medical x-rays. The GPU capabilities may even help particular initiatives utilizing AI and machine studying methods.
The mixed developments of Spaceborne Computer-2 will allow astronauts to get rid of longer latency and wait instances related to sending knowledge to-and-from earth to deal with analysis and achieve insights instantly for a variety of initiatives, together with:
Real-time monitoring of astronauts’ physiological situations by processing X-Ray, sonograms and different medical knowledge to hurry time to analysis in-space.
Making sense of volumes of distant sensor knowledge: There are lots of of sensors that NASA and different organizations have strategically positioned on the ISS and on satellites, which accumulate large volumes of information that require a major quantity of bandwidth to ship to earth to course of. With in-space edge computing, researchers can course of on-board picture, sign and different knowledge associated to a variety of occasions, corresponding to:
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