Jane Edwards
Lockheed Martin considers implementing the cloud-based approach in space missions through its two satellite cloud platforms ““ SpaceCloud and HiveStar, GeekWire reported Wednesday.
Yvonne Hodge, vice president and chief information officer at Lockheed“™s space business, unveiled the HiveStar project at Amazon“™s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas.
“It“™s not just about collecting the data and then sending it back to the ground for processing,“ Hodge said of HiveStar. “It“™s about analyzing the information in space “¦ and then sending the knowledge, the intelligence back to Earth.“
Hodge said HiveStar could be implemented in low-Earth orbit and deep space environments.
It“™s a constellation, but it“™s the software-defined aspect of it that makes it a hive,“ she said. “It“™s not like you replicate the mission in every single satellite, but you can distribute the information in such a way so that if something happened to one, then the others can take over.“
