Efficient Edge Processing with Integrated Storage for Earth Observation Missions
Earth Observation (EO) missions generate vast datasets which traditionally rely on ground-based processing. Unfortunately this processing model comes with considerable challenges like high latency and limited bandwidth, making it difficult to retrieve the real time insights that Earth Observation missions require.
Will NASA Pick Two Companies to Build the LTV?
While the LTV contractors take different approaches to meet NASA’s requirements—from a rugged truck, to a tractor-trailor configuration—they have similar goals for future commercial customers looking to hitch a ride.
Best of the Rest: Lunar and Mars Day 1
The first day of Payload’s Lunar and Mars Economy Summit included lots of interesting conversations, newsy tidbits, and networking with the architects of the next lunar age while surrounded by Space Center Houston’s relics of the first space race.
WEF Launches Space Policy Toolkit
“Everyone is using space data,” she told Payload. “This data is getting integrated into more industries, and used across the government. That’s the trend we see driving demand.”
Impulse Space Sets its Sights on the Moon
Getting to the Moon is about to get a whole lot easier—at least, if Impulse Space can execute on its new mission.
Thomas Santini, Lodestar Space
As the cofounder of Lodestar Space, Santini is building in-space, bodyguard-like technology to protect and defend UK and Western defense assets in orbit.
Nikita Shetti, Viasat UK
“It’s good to get the big picture of the satellite, both pre-launch and post-launch as well,” Shetti told Payload. “It definitely fixed the jigsaw puzzle.”
Darren Charrier, KSAT
“Helping our species become interplanetary seems like the best thing you can do with your life,” Charrier told Payload. “Every step of my career…kind of zigzags, but keeps going towards that.”
Eamon Lawson, Southern Launch
In 2018, Australia passed its first regulatory framework for civil space activities. Lawson was among the first lawyers to hack his way through the new legalese—and make it out unscathed, on the other side.
Annika Rollock, Aurelia Institute
Annika Rollock knew she wanted to work in the space industry the first time she saw Apollo 13—not as one of the astronauts flying the mission, but as one of the engineers keeping the spacecraft’s team alive.
Benjamin Spencer, Apex Space
“He has single-handedly elevated what it means to produce excellent engineering work here at Apex, and has set the standard for every program to come,” Nicolas Gutierrez, head of RF and comms at Apex, said about Spencer. “We definitely could not have done it without him.”
Sairaksha Kesarla, Planet Labs
Space tech does a lot of good for people down here on Earth. For Sairaksha Kesarla, an engineering program manager at Planet Labs ($PL), that’s the whole point.
