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I wish I could put software in one of those shoebox satellites.
by quadcore 8y ago
I wish I could put software in one of those shoebox satellites.
- dasmoth 8y agoIt’ll take some money, some talking (do you have a local university that builds satellites?), or, most likely, both, but there are ways and means of getting things into orbit. See, for example: https://www.cubesatshop.com/product/pumpkin-cubesat-kits/ https://www.cubesatshop.com/product/pumpkin-cubesat-kits/
- exodusorbitals 8y agoOur startup is working on way to allow easier software development in space. Stay in touch, and we will get this ability.
- walrus01 8y agoin the not very far future it probably will be possible to buy hosting services on a platform that is a xen or kvm hypervisor in low earth orbit.
- pferde 8y agoHopefully, soon it will be "just another AZ".
- SEJeff 8y agoHow would you name that? space-west-1? Cardinal directions are sort of irrelevant.
- Kye 8y agoA formula describing its path across the latitude/longitude graph.
- walrus01 8y agoNot saying it's a good idea but you can fit a two line element orbital data field into a hostname or DNS entry.
- pferde 8y agoNo need to do anything complicated. Just name them leo-1, leo-2, ..., and have a page with info about the orbit path for each (visualized, as well as in e.g. keplerian elements)
- louthy 8y agoA true cloud provider
- Waterluvian 8y agoI just had a daydream of Satellites as a Service. "give us a docker image extending our base image, no larger than x MB delta, and we will run it on a chosen satellite for a certain time slice for $y" I can see that future. Even if purely as a learning tool for students.
- ovi256 8y agoStudents can design, build, validate and launch their own cubesats through special programmmes. Even cooler if one of them launches a flying data center. Limited bandwidth would be an issue.
- yellowapple 8y agoBandwidth is usually less of a problem than latency.
- breischl 8y agoWould the satellites have some known set of sensors or something like that? Just trying to figure out what would be the point, other than just the coolness of running code in spaaaaaaaace.
- Waterluvian 8y agoYes, some common API for access to attitude sensors. Maybe a radio. But honestly the point I envision is that it's cool. And teaches kids/teens that this space stuff isn't that far out of reach. I just remember growing up thinking that I'm a C student and so all this stuff is to be left to the smart people. And that error in perspective drove my thinking for a long time. You never really know what will be the spark that helps someone discover their passion. Maybe it's Nyancat Sputnik.
- Kye 8y agoRaspberry Pi In The Sky
- aurelianito 8y ago