SpaceChain February 2020 Monthly Report
ANNOUNCEMENT
SpaceChain has suspended working with CPDAX, and the last day of trading for SPC was on 19 Feb 2020, 3pm (GMT+9). Members are advised to withdraw their SPC to their personal wallet or transfer to another exchange ASAP.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
In the news
SpaceChain CEO Zee Zheng was featured in the digital edition of Geospatial World magazine (page 80). Read to know about the latest geospatial technology, application, research and business trends!
In addition, Zee also appeared in the Business Times (page 17) under the section Views From the Top, where CEOs and business leaders contribute their views to weekly industry hot topics. The week’s topic is the Singapore Budget 2020.
Networking and business development
SpaceChain CCO Nick Trudgen visited a myriad of places in February for networking activities, such as OneWeb global headquarters, located in London. OneWeb recently sent 34 satellites into orbit on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, fuelled by 18 million pounds of funding from the UK Space Agency via ESA, to build a mega-constellation to provide global satellite internet.
Nick was at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) in Guildford to talk about the ESA Lunar Pathfinder mission, which will provide telecommunications services for the Moon, with Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd in Cornwall supporting the telemetry, tracking, and control (TT&C) satellite subsystem.
He attended the Industry Day on the Copernicus Space Components Ground Segment Operations Services Competitions. Located in Frascati, Italy, it is dedicated to research involving earth observation data taken from satellites, among other specialised activities. The establishment currently hosts the European Space Agency’s development team for the Vega launcher.
Interesting reads
Accuracy and Authenticity in Earth Observation Data
We live in a world today where the gathering and analysis of volumes of data are integral to our future survival, with Earth Observation Data (EOD) becoming one of the most invaluable tools for providing an understanding of and evaluating the systems we have in place. This article takes a look at how EOD is instrumental in shaping today’s world, particularly when it comes to the information collated by satellites.
The Future of Satellite Constellations
Did you know that there are 128 million debris objects in orbit that are between 1mm and 1cm in size? And that’s not even including the number of larger sized space junk. Find out more in our blog on space junk and why you should care.
TECHNICAL PROGRESS
Solved two issues of SPC server:
1. Added measures to handle the cases that OTP validation fails in our SPC server.
2. Added a verification mechanism during the corporate user registration process.
Electrum client and corporate user registration webpage:
1. Optimised the UI of Electrum software and added the SpaceChian multisignature logo to the Electrum software.
2. Received the first version of the corporate user registration web page from NEU.
Conducted multisignature transaction tests:
We have performed the tests of the overall transaction processes including corporate user registration, corporate user server initialization, multi-signature transaction. We are currently working on solving the problems during these processes.
Client server:
1. Modified the design of the corporate user webpage.
2. Improved the process of compressing/decompressing the transaction files.
3. Completed the test to handle the cases of inputting the wrong OTP.
4. Tested the new functions of the corporate user server.
Space node software upgrades:
We are working on upgrading the SpaceNode software to make it more compatible with Linux OS. We have modified two things:
- Using a new toolchain.
- Modifying the parameters in the Makefile.
More software developments:
1. Solved the incompatibility issue between the network interface controller and SD card in a dual-OS environment.
2. Working on the incompatibility issue of drivers in a dual-OS environment.
3. Upgrading dependent libraries of SpaceNode software to fit with the new version of the kernel.
4. Fixed a bug regarding the update of the OTP secret.
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