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We also can offer you an actual satellite for rent, starting 2021. Have a look at https://www.exodusorbitals.com https://www.exodusorbitals.com
by d_silin 7y ago
We also can offer you an actual satellite for rent, starting 2021. Have a look at https://www.exodusorbitals.com https://www.exodusorbitals.com
- ghouse 7y agoSaaS? Satellite as a Service?
- d_silin 7y agoYes, more or less.
- nexuist 7y agoThis is ridiculous and I love it. Do your satellites have cameras that can be interfaced with as well? Could I have a satellite monitoring a specific area 24/7?
- d_silin 7y agoYes for cameras. No to 24/7 monitoring for quite a long while - need a really large constellation for that (think Starlink/OneWeb scale).
- nexuist 7y agoUnderstandable - could I instead strategically rent time slots for when the satellite passes over a certain location? That's not 24/7, but once a day for basic data science is certainly enough.
- navaati 7y agoI'm actually a bit sorry to derail the grandparent (totally fine !) sales process :) but if what you want is daily imagery of a specific place for data science purpose, check out Planet Labs, they do just that !
- nexuist 7y agoThanks for the mention. I can't seem to find any mention of pricing on the Planet Labs website; do you have any idea what it should come out to if I take a picture of a 3x3 mile square every day for a month?
- Lorin 7y agoIs "3U" the satellite's dimensions as if it's electronic rack equipment? hah.
- d_silin 7y agoAh no, cubesats use a different definition of "1U" which is a 10x10x10 cm cube (1L volume). So a 3U satelitte will be 30x10x10 cm box with a 3L volume and mass around 4-5kg
- Uehreka 7y agoI have no use for this right now but will totally file it away in the back of my head for later. My first question would be: If I want to run code on one of your satellites, do I have to place an order for a server to be added to the payload of a future launch vehicle, or do you just launch satellites with servers running on them and then rent out compute/instrument time on a per hour basis?
- d_silin 7y agoYou do "git commit" and we will deploy your code on our satellite, that's it. Similar to Heroku model.
- chance_state 7y agoSorry, but what would be the use case for running code on a satellite?
- d_silin 7y agoA few solid cases are: - space-qualification for the satellite control software. You need to test your own flight software in space, so you use our satellite platform to run test/validation and then reuse on your own satellite. - space-based algorithm tests, such as data compression/error correction or radiation hardening through software means. Inter-satellite link protocols is also a rich field for software developers. - data analysis: satellite instruments can produce a lot more data than can be downlinked, so it is in your best interest to pre-process it as much as possible on-board instead of downloading just raw data - Autonomy algorithms tests: for example for automatic collision avoidance software or maneuvres around non-cooperating target (think defunct satellite or asteroid) - Data fusion: combine data from multiple satellite instruments, such AIS receiver and imagery to filter maritime traffic for ships without AIS transponders on, then classify those - Remote asset tracking and labeling (think pipelines, agriculture, shipping containers, farming plots) where you don't have "eyes on the ground". Needs some image recognition tools to identify changes and/or damage. All of the above can be packed as an "app" and run concurrently or in series on one or multiple satellites, with the possibility of reusing the code for different satellite platforms. An interesting case is making a single "virtual satellite" out of multiple physical ones, with a single app using instruments from different satellites.