SpaceX to add 7,518 satellites to Starlink

Elon Musk, a person full of ambition and entrepreneurial mind is now all set to introduce to the world, a way which will be useful for people all around the world. He plans on providing a vast area of coverage for Internet and he’s going to do it in a way like no other has done before. His idea is to provide internet directly and completely wirelessly from space by launching internet beaming satellites into the low orbit space, lower than the International Space Station. This will result in low time Internet coverage from space to earth. This venture is expected to generate revenue of more than $30 billion by 2025.

This will be done by launching more than 7000 satellites into the orbit for which the permission has been given to SpaceX by FCC (Federal Communication Commission). Elon Musk has been given time to launch half of them in 6 years and to complete the launch in 9 years’ time span as allowed by FCC. This project has been given a name of “Starlink” in which total 12000 low orbit satellites will be launched into space. This project is expected to cost $10 billion and to be operational by 2020.

This service will provide a cheap global connectivity and internet access to remote areas where there was no internet until now, this project will also allow Internet of Things to grow as there will be an extensive and fast wireless connection. With such development from Space X, aerospace and communication giants like Boeing and Samsung are also sending their internet service satellites into the space. Google and Facebook also have plans to pursue such venture as Internet demand is going to double by year 2020. By 2020 their will be 3:1 IP address to global population that is 3 IP address or internet device to 1 person. To meet such demand SpaceX space internet mission will be extremely successful.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NASA make supercomputer, installed on International Space Station, available for Earth-based scientists

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) built and installed a supercomputer on the International Space Station last year. It was designed specially to tolerate the extreme conditions of space. The company recently announced that it will be making the computer available to earth-based scientists and programmers to conduct experiments.

Technology Officer at HPE, Mark Fernandez, said that the computer was built to withstand extreme travel conditions in space if they plan to go to Mars. Earlier space computers performed some of the calculations in the space and sent the rest of data to Earth for computation. This approach was however not feasible at Mars due to the distance involved therefore a computer was needed that could perform all the calculations in real time without sending any data back to Earth.

Initially they built a one teraflop supercomputer with Intel Broadwell processors - the best available processors – in 2017 and sent it to space via a SpaceX rocket. The computer has flown around the earth 6000 times since.

Now, the HPE and NASA have decided to make this computer available to earth-based scientists, programmers and developers to perform high-latency jobs. The computer would be available next year. Interested people need to apply to HPE and NASA for getting the computer.