“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery Industry

Re:“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery ... by geo-matik on Sunday January 01, 2023 @01:21PM (#34209025)

The European Space Agency has already demonstrated on-the-edge processing with Phi-Sat-1. They use AI to detect clouds and only downlink images below a certain cloud cover threshold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi-Sat-1

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Re:“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery ... by jvanderbot on Sunday January 01, 2023 @01:57PM (#34209458)

And this was previously demonstrated by NASA on EO-1. (2017 paper)

https://ml.jpl.nasa.gov/papers/wagstaff/wagstaff-eo1-17.pdf

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Re:“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery ... by moffkalast on Sunday January 01, 2023 @06:15PM (#34212151)

> Intel Movidius board with a Myriad II chip (VPU)

So, is this cubesat 99% thermal control radiators or what?

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Re:“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery ... by XorNot on Sunday January 01, 2023 @06:49PM (#34212482)

This to me seems the biggest problem with the concept: on Earth heat management is incredibly cheap. In space it's a gigantic problem.

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