Phys.org July 8, 2019
ESA has launched two tiny supercomputing parallel supercomputing scalable satellites nanosatellites (size of a shoebox) built by an international team of researchers (UK, Canada). It can be programmed to both receive and process data while in orbit. The small satellites can collect over a terabyte of data per day which has to be analyzed in orbit so that true insights can be delivered to customers directly and in a timely fashion…read more.
Pioneer satellites launch on board. Credit: Soyuz Roscosmos