LEOcloud to Demonstrate its Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service Onboard the ISS

LEOcloud to Demonstrate its Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service Onboard the ISS

The Center for Advancement of Science in Space, who manages the International Space Station National Laboratory (through a cooperative agreement with NASA), has awarded LEOcloud a technology advancement and commercialization project to demonstrate its Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering onboard the orbiting outpost.

LEOcloud’s “Cloud ENIAC” project scope includes the deployment and management of its 1st generation Space Edge virtualized micro datacenter on the space station where it will allow end users to migrate their applications from their terrestrial cloud environment to a Space cloud region. LEOcloud’s Service Management System will enable end user resource reservation, application migration, and operation.

LEOcloud's Space Edge IaaS enables multi-cloud computing on board space-based facilities. It scales to address the cloud computing requirements of satellites, research platforms, and space stations in LEO, the lunar region, and beyond. Space Edge IaaS is a managed service that allows spacecraft operators to focus on their core expertise and services while providing local Space-based, mission critical cloud computing services to their customers.

Additionally, LEOcloud and Sierra Space have entered into a collaborative agreement where they will develop a roadmap and plan of record for support of cloud services on Sierra Space’s LIFE Habitat, Dream Chaser Spaceplane, and Sierra Space Station facilities.

“Sierra Space is building and operating disruptive platforms and services in space that will drive the next great industrial revolution – the Orbital Age,” said Ken Shields, Sr. Director of Business Development at Sierra Space. “Working with LEOcloud to develop this in-space compute and cloud infrastructure are critical elements to building a robust economy in LEO and beyond.”

LEOcloud is proud for the opportunity to advance our service offering towards commercialization that will be vital in order for the emerging Space economy to realize its full potential,” said Dennis Gatens, CEO and founder of LEOcloud. “We are excited to be working with a team of market leading visionaries.”

“The space station represents a novel testbed to validate emerging technologies and capabilities that bring value to humanity and spur commerce in low Earth orbit,” said ISS National Lab Chief Scientist Dr. Michael Roberts. “We look forward to working with LEOcloud as they leverage the space station to further cloud computing efforts that may provide data solutions not only for this orbiting outpost, but future destinations in low Earth orbit and beyond.”

Space is the next domain for edge computing where it will be critical infrastructure for services and operations for commercial, government, and military users to transform data into actionable insights far more efficiently by removing the latency, security risks, and the cost burden of bringing their data back to terrestrial data centers. For example, “Astro Researchers” performing data intensive, highly iterative research will realize significant reduction of cost and project duration to advance their Space-based research with local cloud resources available to run their research applications.

Click here to learn about LEOcloud's Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service.

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GNSS Constellations - A list of all GNSS satellites by constellations

beidou

Satellite NameOrbit Date
BeiDou-3 G4Geostationary Orbit (GEO)17 May, 2023
BeiDou-3 G2Geostationary Orbit (GEO)09 Mar, 2020
Compass-IGSO7Inclined Geosynchronous Orbit (IGSO)09 Feb, 2020
BeiDou-3 M19Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)16 Dec, 2019
BeiDou-3 M20Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)16 Dec, 2019
BeiDou-3 M21Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)23 Nov, 2019
BeiDou-3 M22Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)23 Nov, 2019
BeiDou-3 I3Inclined Geosynchronous Orbit (IGSO)04 Nov, 2019
BeiDou-3 M23Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)22 Sep, 2019
BeiDou-3 M24Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)22 Sep, 2019

galileo

Satellite NameOrbit Date
GSAT0223MEO - Near-Circular05 Dec, 2021
GSAT0224MEO - Near-Circular05 Dec, 2021
GSAT0219MEO - Near-Circular25 Jul, 2018
GSAT0220MEO - Near-Circular25 Jul, 2018
GSAT0221MEO - Near-Circular25 Jul, 2018
GSAT0222MEO - Near-Circular25 Jul, 2018
GSAT0215MEO - Near-Circular12 Dec, 2017
GSAT0216MEO - Near-Circular12 Dec, 2017
GSAT0217MEO - Near-Circular12 Dec, 2017
GSAT0218MEO - Near-Circular12 Dec, 2017

glonass

Satellite NameOrbit Date
Kosmos 2569--07 Aug, 2023
Kosmos 2564--28 Nov, 2022
Kosmos 2559--10 Oct, 2022
Kosmos 2557--07 Jul, 2022
Kosmos 2547--25 Oct, 2020
Kosmos 2545--16 Mar, 2020
Kosmos 2544--11 Dec, 2019
Kosmos 2534--27 May, 2019
Kosmos 2529--03 Nov, 2018
Kosmos 2527--16 Jun, 2018

gps

Satellite NameOrbit Date
Navstar 82Medium Earth Orbit19 Jan, 2023
Navstar 81Medium Earth Orbit17 Jun, 2021
Navstar 78Medium Earth Orbit22 Aug, 2019
Navstar 77Medium Earth Orbit23 Dec, 2018
Navstar 76Medium Earth Orbit05 Feb, 2016
Navstar 75Medium Earth Orbit31 Oct, 2015
Navstar 74Medium Earth Orbit15 Jul, 2015
Navstar 73Medium Earth Orbit25 Mar, 2015
Navstar 72Medium Earth Orbit29 Oct, 2014
Navstar 71Medium Earth Orbit02 Aug, 2014

irnss

Satellite NameOrbit Date
NVS-01Geostationary Orbit (GEO)29 May, 2023
IRNSS-1IInclined Geosynchronous Orbit (IGSO)12 Apr, 2018
IRNSS-1HSub Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (Sub-GTO)31 Aug, 2017
IRNSS-1GGeostationary Orbit (GEO)28 Apr, 2016
IRNSS-1FGeostationary Orbit (GEO)10 Mar, 2016
IRNSS-1EGeosynchronous Orbit (IGSO)20 Jan, 2016
IRNSS-1DInclined Geosynchronous Orbit (IGSO)28 Mar, 2015
IRNSS-1CGeostationary Orbit (GEO)16 Oct, 2014
IRNSS-1BInclined Geosynchronous Orbit (IGSO)04 Apr, 2014
IRNSS-1AInclined Geosynchronous Orbit (IGSO)01 Jul, 2013