Who does not know the slogan of the Bitcoin community: “to da moon”. At that time the slogan descriped the overwhelming Bitcoin price explosion. Now, a few years later, the slogan “to da moon” gets a whole new meaning. It’s about real space travel, a lunar project and the importance of Blockchain and Tangle (IOTA) in this context.
Let’s start with Spacebit and their current projects. Spacebit is a group of like-minded space blockchain pioneers, led by a team of consultants, astronauts, entrepreneurs, engineers and rocket scientists, driven to democratise access to space by tokenising commercial space missions around the Earth, the Moon and beyond. Spacebit is changing the future of space exploration by driving forward publicly directed space missions and new economic models around space communication, allowing private and public enterprises to shape the future of humanity in our universe and the new space economy.
In partnership with Goonhilly Earth Station, Spacebit is building a new ecosystem for ground based elements in space missions, including radio communications, ground networks and eventually components of mission control. Spacebit will be utilising Goonhilly’s existing network of over 60 dishes to run the pilot projects.
Spacebit is looking to explore IOTA architecture, ensuring interoperability with EOS (Earth Observing System) , which will include some of the first Qubic protocol layer applications over the Tangle. The architecture of IOTA will be used for specific space related applications such as an IoT network of multiple space vehicles using Qubic for AI and outsourced heavy computing.
Here is a short insert what combined computing means:
For any computational device, there will always be tasks too resource intensive for the device to compute, or tasks that require data beyond what is locally available. This is especially true for the devices that comprise the Internet of Things (IoT). These devices are typically limited by lack of memory, processing power, energy availability, or all of the above. What if such low power devices could simply outsource intensive computations to an external, more capable machine?
Qubic enables exactly such outsourced computations, and allows secure, permissionless participation for consumers and producers alike. The protocol allows anyone to create or request to run a computational task on one or more external devices, which in turn transmit the results back to the requester. Similarly, anyone can find tasks and participate in processing them.
As with oracle machines, this processing takes place in a decentralized and secure way, with the Qubic protocol ensuring that the results can be trusted to a high degree of certainty.
Spacebit will be announcing its institutional membership with the Moon Village Association, or MVA, which is looking to encourage the development of missions to establish a moon base. The MVA, in cooperation with the University of Southern California and the National Space Society, have discussed what needs to be done first to achieve this goal. This includes the kinds of laws that would govern inhabitants on the moon, infrastructure, governance, and cultural choices. The race to a moon colony continues, however the primary hurdle in getting there is developing cost-effective means to conduct missions and create a sustainable development. Spacebit believes in the significance of a lunar colony and supports the efforts of the MVA in laying the groundwork for realistic steps towards such an achievement.
Nearly 50 years after humans first set foot on the moon, it’s a hot destination once again.
Jan Wörner, director general of the European Space Agency, has advocated for creation of an international “moon village,” in which humans and robots work together on mining operations, astronomy, or other projects on the lunar surface. More recently, NASA has been directed to prioritize human moon exploration before visiting Mars.
It may be a long road back to the moon, however. Although rockets like NASA’s Space Launch System or SpaceX’s just-tested Falcon Heavy are in the works, substantial funding will be required to come up with everything from landers to spacesuits to lunar habitats. Engineers will have to find a way to achieve long-term stays under harsh lunar conditions, which include debilitating dust and alternating, two-week periods of strong sunlight and cold darkness.
Moon Village Association would like to see human moon missions in the 2030s, preceded by robotic missions and a “build-up of orbiting transportation, communications and observation.”
Now even the European Space Agency (ESA) is also becoming aware of IOTA. Jule Maupin’s Director of social impact and public regulatory affairs, IOTA Foundation, recently had the opportunity to talk in depth with this organization about the benefits of IOTA as a DLT in space.
ESA recently launched a co-matching grant fund for projects that you want to experiment with, how to combine DLTs and satellites, how to use Blockchain in space. It is fantastic for all enthusiasts to see that IOTA is also applicable in space.
And What about the NASA?
In December 2017, President Donald J. Trump gave NASA a new direction, telling the agency to work with international and commercial partners to refocus exploration efforts on the moon, with an eye to eventually going on to Mars and even beyond. As
NASA’s Exploration Campaign includes U.S. leadership in low-Earth orbit, in orbit around the Moon and on its surface, and at destinations far beyond, including Mars.
stated in Space Policy Directive-1, “The NASA Administrator shall, ‘Lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities. Beginning with missions beyond low-Earth orbit, the United States will lead the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization, followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations.’ ”
The Exploration Campaign is a national and agency effort focused on three core domains: low Earth orbit; lunar orbit and surface; and Mars and other deep space objectives. The campaign has four strategic goals:
- Transition U.S. human spaceflight in low-Earth orbit to commercial operations, which support NASA and the needs of an emerging private sector market.
- Extend long-duration U.S. human spaceflight operations to lunar orbit.
- Enable long-term robotic exploration of the Moon.
- Enable human exploration of the Moon as preparation for human missions to Mars and deeper into the solar system.
NASA was the first to get involved with blockchain technology, funny projects by the resilient networking and Computing paradigm — a program that uses blockchain technology an AI to eliminate for human computation. The new system is based blockchain smart contracts that apply directly to difficulties found in space.
It’s ideal for deep space exploration according to doctor Jin Wei Kocsis of Akron University. Blockchain technology is being used warning detection system against external and environmental threats, so the astronauts controlling the space shuttles avoid them automatically while performing other essential tasks. Scientist on space shuttles in space will also have more time and data because of the automation performed by the technology within the blockchain system.
Being explored by civilians now like Elon Musk and SpaceX, who are currently investigating blockchain for use within satellites that can operate at low-cost decentralized networks. Several startup companies are venturing into the unknown.
It will not be long before NASA wins its interest in IOTA. First of all, IOTA offers the solutions that are necessary for space missions in many areas, and secondly, S. D Nelson recently joined the IOTA Foundation. He has had a lot to do with NASA in his earlier career. His experience owning a software validation business in California gave him the opportunity to contribute to the safe flight of the Curiosity Mars Rover and the NASA Space Shuttle. He believes future space mission will launch with IOTA!
So it can also be called for IOTA right now “To da Moon”. A very exciting development and we would like to keep you informed.
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[1] https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/it-takes-moon-village-180968368/#VksReadSbTdVxOC6.99
