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Data Centers in Space

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A TIDAL WAVE of commercial and national security-driven requirements for global communication, research, navigation, surveillance, and other applications have spurred a renaissance in space exploration, which when combined with innovations in commercially viable delivery systems has resulted in significant satellite proliferation in recent years. Given the insurgence of investment, innovation and diverse interests of the involved players, historically large satellites are being de-emphasized in favor of constellations of smaller, more nimble satellites now conducive to emerging commercial launch services. This transition offers the opportunity for heavily matrixed satellite coverage that can be deployed cost effectively and provide redundancy and resilience against failure or threats. However, traditional satellite communications primarily leverage point to point links with Earth, presenting a new wave of challenges that limit the speed, bandwidth, resilience, and scalability required to support this growing satellite network. In parallel, as innovations in sensing technology and an increasing desire to collect harvested data, process it to drive actionable insights continues to soar, the resulting influx of data further aggravates the identified communication challenges to achieve scalability of the network, which then creates a data storage problem. Also, as some of these insights may involve imminent threats requiring real time responsiveness, the resulting latency of transmitting the data to other locations becomes unacceptable . These natural and manmade threats have become more apparent in recent years with rising geopolitical tensions with Russia and China resulting in territory grabs which are now bleeding into the space domain, from cyber warfare to purported weapons systems. As a result, concerns about satellite vulnerability in addition to scalability of communication and control are reigniting the age-old debate about building a framework of centralized vs distributed intelligence
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