Voyager Technologies Inc. has deployed cloud computing technology on the International Space Station (ISS).
The company has launched “Space Edge” – a space-hardened and managed cloud infrastructure – and deployed it on the ISS, making what the company claims is the first multi-cloud region in space.
Space Edge was developed by LEOcloud, a company recently acquired by Voyager. The solution enables processing in orbit, reducing latency without the need to send data back to a terrestrial data center. The company claims this is up to 30 times faster than traditional satellite-to-ground solutions.
Voyager is targeting defense, civil space, and commercial markets.
“As the space economy grows, space-based infrastructure becomes as essential as it is on Earth,” said Dennis R. Gatens, president of LEOcloud at Voyager. “For missions across defense, national security and in-space research that require actionable data at the speed of relevance, Space Edge brings data processing closer to the source.”
The offering is also supported by Podman – developed by Red Hat engineers and the open source community – and used for application administration and deployment.
Source: datacenterdynamics.com
