Session

Poster Session 4

Location

Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Abstract

1 — Background

  • Growing dependence on space-based assets (telecom, transport, grid, GPS) = growing space-weather exposure
  • A Carrington-class storm today would mean cascading failures and losses in the trillions
  • Current assets (e.g. GOES, ACE, DSCOVR) are excellent but large, costly, and with minutes to hours of alert latency from ground processing; weak coverage off the Earth–Sun line, where multi-point views could untangle the solar flare/SEP/ CME chain
  • The Space Weather Alerting Platform (SWAP) concept mission (right) is a low-cost, 3U cubesat solution for proliferated solar monitoring with low-latency onboard AI alerting

Document Type

Event

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Aug 26th, 12:00 AM

SWAP: An AI-Enabled CubeSat for Low-Latency Space Weather Alerting

Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT

1 — Background

  • Growing dependence on space-based assets (telecom, transport, grid, GPS) = growing space-weather exposure
  • A Carrington-class storm today would mean cascading failures and losses in the trillions
  • Current assets (e.g. GOES, ACE, DSCOVR) are excellent but large, costly, and with minutes to hours of alert latency from ground processing; weak coverage off the Earth–Sun line, where multi-point views could untangle the solar flare/SEP/ CME chain
  • The Space Weather Alerting Platform (SWAP) concept mission (right) is a low-cost, 3U cubesat solution for proliferated solar monitoring with low-latency onboard AI alerting