PARIS, France \u2013 Axiom Space and Spacebilt announced plans Sept. 16 to deliver a data center node with optical communications links to the International Space Station in 2027.<\/p>\n
The Axiom Orbital Data Center Node on ISS, called AxODC Node ISS, being developed in collaboration with Spacebilt, will feature an optical communications terminal from Skyloom plus hardware from Phison Electronics and Microchip Technology.<\/p>\n
The project is aimed at establishing a \u201chigh-performance optical data center node\u201d on ISS, enabling spacecraft, astronauts and researchers to store and process data, according to the news release.<\/p>\n
\u201cAxODC Node ISS is particularly exciting because not only are we increasing computing capacity on the space station, but we are integrating commercial optical communications terminals with the station, which gives our computing hardware connectivity to satellites in the mesh network,\u201d Jason Aspiotis, Axiom global director of in-space data and security, said in a statement. \u201cThis is part of our roadmap for a distributed and federated network\u201d of orbital data center nodes.<\/p>\n
Axiom began testing data storage and processing on ISS with the 2022 delivery of an Amazon Web Services Snowcone solid-state drive<\/a>. In August, Houston-based Axiom and Red Hat, a North Carolina-based open-source software specialist, sent AxDCU-1, another data center<\/a>, to the space station.<\/p>\n When Axiom\u2019s three orbital data centers are connected, they will provide enough data-storage capacity and processing power for cloud-computing applications including artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, according to the news release.<\/p>\n Spacebilt\u2019s Role<\/p>\n Florida startup Spacebilt is leading the campaign to design AxODC Node ISS and to link it with payloads inside and outside the space station. Spacebilt\u2019s petabyte-scale Large In-Space Server includes Phison Pascari solid-state drives and Microchip\u2019s PIC64 High-Performance Spaceflight Computing.<\/p>\n If all goes as planned, the 2027 launch will be the first spaceflight for PIC64, which Microchip developed with NASA funding<\/a>. Phison\u2019s Pascari, part of Lonestar\u2019s lunar data center, traveled to the moon<\/a> in February on an Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander.<\/p>\n The collaboration \u201cbrings a new era in compute and storage in space,\u201d Dennis Wingo, Spacebilt president and chief technology officer, said in a statement.<\/p>\n Optical Links<\/p>\n For the project, Skyloom is providing an optical terminal compatible with the Space Development Agency Tranche 1 Transport Layer.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are laying the foundation for an optical backbone that will one day make space as connected and data-rich as Earth,\u201d Eric Moltzau, Skyloom chief commercial officer, said in a statement. \u201cBy enabling high-speed optical links to the AxODC Node, we\u2019re accelerating the future of orbital cloud computing and AI-driven decision-making in space.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS, France \u2013 Axiom Space and Spacebilt announced plans Sept. 16 to deliver a data center node with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71450,2645,98676,38018,98677,79,722,193,98678],"class_list":{"0":"post-162694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-axiom-space","9":"tag-iss","10":"tag-microchip-technology","11":"tag-optical-communications","12":"tag-phison-electronics","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-sn","15":"tag-space","16":"tag-spacebilt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}