Session
Technical Poster Session 5
Location
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Abstract
We live in an environment where interest in space is hotter than ever, and new emerging technologies related to space are introduced daily. Now, space has come to have a close relationship with our real lives, not our imagination. There are already various services such as GPS and satellite-based communication services, and now humans are trying to extend the range of mankind beyond the moon to Mars.
However, despite these efforts, there are still many obstacles to space access. Space has really only been accessible to well-resourced nation-states, organizations, and the super-wealthy.
Our vision and goal for this mission was, how we can democratize access to space, how can we streamline the process for getting school-aged children access to the wonders of space in order to inspire the next generation of future space explorers and leaders? We leveraged IBM/RedHat technology to enable students worldwide to interact directly with CubeSat from the Low Earth Orbit. On the ground, we use the historical sensor data and image data provided by the CubeSat to perform further analysis work. Furthermore, the ground-based system on IBM Cloud provides an analytic application development environment to develop and test the code that can be containerized and executed in the CubeSat.
All of this leverages IBM's Edge Computing in Space solution (a Linux-based and Red Hat-initiated Microshift project) that allows developers to run containerized code while the CubeSat orbits the Earth. Users can develop code in the web environment through python and machine learning libraries. Block-based coding environments are also available to novice programmers.
A new era in the universe has just begun. Let's all work together to build the next frontier for innovation.
Democratizing Access to Space: Kube Platform for CubeSat
Utah State University, Logan, UT
We live in an environment where interest in space is hotter than ever, and new emerging technologies related to space are introduced daily. Now, space has come to have a close relationship with our real lives, not our imagination. There are already various services such as GPS and satellite-based communication services, and now humans are trying to extend the range of mankind beyond the moon to Mars.
However, despite these efforts, there are still many obstacles to space access. Space has really only been accessible to well-resourced nation-states, organizations, and the super-wealthy.
Our vision and goal for this mission was, how we can democratize access to space, how can we streamline the process for getting school-aged children access to the wonders of space in order to inspire the next generation of future space explorers and leaders? We leveraged IBM/RedHat technology to enable students worldwide to interact directly with CubeSat from the Low Earth Orbit. On the ground, we use the historical sensor data and image data provided by the CubeSat to perform further analysis work. Furthermore, the ground-based system on IBM Cloud provides an analytic application development environment to develop and test the code that can be containerized and executed in the CubeSat.
All of this leverages IBM's Edge Computing in Space solution (a Linux-based and Red Hat-initiated Microshift project) that allows developers to run containerized code while the CubeSat orbits the Earth. Users can develop code in the web environment through python and machine learning libraries. Block-based coding environments are also available to novice programmers.
A new era in the universe has just begun. Let's all work together to build the next frontier for innovation.
