Red Hat will collaborate with Axiom Spacespatial infrastructure provider, In the development and deployment of the Axiom Space´s Data Center Unit-1 (AxDCU-1)whose launch to the International Space Station will take place in spring. Promoted by Red Dat Device Edge, this data process prototype will perform tests at the space station, in addition to demonstrating the initial capabilities of the Orbital Data Center (ODC).
In addition, the prototype will test cloud, AI and automatic learning applications, as well as data fusion and spatial cybersecurity. AXDCU-1 is part of the work that Axiom Space is doing to develop space infrastructure.
Red Hat Device Edge combines a distribution ready for the company and with support of the microshift open source project, which leads Red Hat. It is a light distribution of Kubernetes derived from Edge’s capabilities of Red Hat Onshift, together with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Automation Platform. Red Hat Device Edge will allow Axiom Space to house hybrid cloud applications and cloud native work loads in orbit,
Axiom Space orbital data centers are developed to provide tangible benefits to humanity on Earth. Also to reduce delays associated with the process and analysis of orbital data.
By using Cloud storage, which does not depend on the Earth, and the process infrastructure in the EDGE, the Axiom Space orbital data centers will allow processing the data closer to its source, and without having to use land data centers. This architecture reduces the dependence on network connections and its costs of costs, slowness, internnce and interference, allowing decision making in the fastest and safe space.
The objective of Red Hat with this collaboration is to offer Axiom Space and its partners have real -time process to gain reliability and cybersecurity. Among the cases of use of space data centers are support for land observation satellites with storage and data process in the space with less latency, AI training and Machine Learning in orbit, multifactor authentication and detection and response to cyber intrusions.
They are also among these cases of use supervised autonomy, the in situ analysis of the space climate, the creation of backups and the recovery against disasters outside the earth for critical infrastructure in the plan.
Tony James, Chief Architect of Science and Space of Red Hatrecalled that «The data process outside the planet is the next border, and Edge Computing is a crucial component. With Red Hat Device Edge and in collaboration with Axiom Space, missions partners on Earth will have the necessary capabilities to make decisions in real time in space with greater reliability and consistency«.
As to Jason aspietis, global data and security director in the Axiom Space spacestressed that they are «excited about the possibilities that this collaboration with Red Hat offers for the infrastructure of the SDDs and the future of space operations. The incorporation of terrestrial level cloud solutions in the SDGs will allow users«.
