When Michael Collins peeked through a portal at the Apollo 11 command module, which was just orbiting the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were making the historic lunar walk below, he saw a borderless planet in blue and white. It occurred to him that humans would have a better future if political leaders could also see the world in this way, like the entire globe, and learn to cooperate.

But he couldn’t share his celebrity now Thoughts With the people of his country even setting foot on Earth, due in part to the very limited contact between the spacecraft and ground observation.

Software engineers and researchers from all companies are working together to change that with a new partnership aimed at improving connectivity and enabling experiences that will propel astronauts into space while improving astronauts’ lives. It’s all based on a new platform that includes a supercomputer the size of a small microwave that connects to the cloud from space.

Kristen Kretz, Vice President of Programs and Partnerships at the United Nations International Space Station National Laboratory states. New, reusable rockets make space exploration more expensive and open up to more players, he says, “and that’s the new space. Eliminate rivalries and divisions.”

the organisation NASA, through Congress, led De Cretz to administer the United States National Laboratory aboard the International Space Station (IS, for acronym in English), and their job is to search for groups, from universities to start-ups and tech giants, that would “make the best possible use of technology for this spacecraft that has become a floating laboratory going global”.

Taking gravity out of the equation has made a huge difference to scientists researching everything from combustion engines to air purification systems to cancer treatments. During 21 years of human occupation, the space station has hosted more than 3,000 experiments by more than 4,000 researchers from more than 100 countries.

With hundreds of other ideas in the works, scientists need a robust infrastructure and connectivity to run and access their experiments. This is what intends to offer New partnership between Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Microsoft, with Azure Cloud and Environment Computing.

So far, research data collected from the space station has been transmitted by droplet, due to competing priorities for the limited communication available. By the time the researchers obtained their data, it was too late to make necessary adjustments to the collection process or to respond to any surprises that might arise outside of the effect of gravity.

This restricted communication can also delay the communication of critical decisions to astronauts, who often have to wait for information to reach ground control, analyze it there and then return it with the necessary information.

This is very challenging for a space station with an orbit of up to 250 miles above Earth. But the moon is about a thousand times farther away. At its farthest orbital position, Mars is a million times that distance. Therefore, missions that go further into outer space will need more computing power available to astronauts and better channels for sharing information.

HP He has already begun designing supercomputers for NASA to be used for the heavy computing required to plan missions. So the company took one of the hundreds of high-performance computing servers that make up a supercomputer, made sure it could be mounted on a rocket, and then tested it to see if it could withstand the jolt and jolt of a launch, to be installed. By untrained people working in space, stray cosmic rays can convert 1 to 0, or vice versa, and wreak havoc on the system.

It worked.

And now the second version, Spaceborne Computer-2, which was sent to the International Space Station in February, includes the proven approach to the first mission, with a more advanced system, designed specifically for harsh environments and artificial intelligence processing and analytics. Mark Fernandez, HPE Principal Investigator for the project.

The Spaceborne Computer-2 is powerful enough to do the task of analyzing data at the source of the assembly, right there in space, through a process called environment computing. It’s as if your hand is sending information to your brain and you have to wait for analysis and response before giving a signal to leave a hot stove, then suddenly you have the ability to analyze the temperature directly with the tip. of the finger and they decided to do it to immediately bounce off the heat.

There are hundreds of instruments on the space station, some constantly collecting data and others requiring frequent video streams. Reducing the amount of data that must be transmitted provides this flow for more science experiments.

However, longer accounts must be sent to Earth for assistance.

One partner experiment, for example, addresses the health care needs of astronauts on longer space missions. The effects of a long stay in space on the human body are not fully understood, so technology that allows for frequent monitoring of changes over time is of particular interest.

So the experiment is testing whether astronauts can constantly monitor their health amid the potential risk of additional exposure to radiation aboard a spacecraft, which may be even more dangerous when a planet like Mars is seven months away. Travel without medical treatment. Astronauts in the experiment download their genomes and analyze them for abnormalities. They are then compared to the National Institute of Health’s database to see if there are new mutations and whether they are benign and the mission can continue, or whether they are those most often associated with cancer that may require immediate attention on Earth. It is the ultimate test of telemedicine that can also be seen in remote locations around the world.