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NASA Exploring Blockchain Technology That Could Help Power Mission to Saturn’s Icy Moon
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is looking at a blockchain solution that can help power the space agency’s mission to Saturn’s icy moon, Titan. According to a NASA briefing, tech companies Orbit Logic and the Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental Software Engineering have put forward a blockchain-based protocol that enhances communications in inhospitable space environments dubbed as the Space Communication Reconstruction and Mapping with Blockchain Ledgering or SCRAMBL. By leveraging the distributed ledger technology, SCRAMBL will store and propagate a ledger containing relevant data across networking satellites.
“The ledger contains an inventory of established communication paths based on spacecraft-published connection state changes, but more importantly hosts events, states, objectives, and plans that constitute a Common Relevant Operating Picture (CROP) – key to enabling a space network’s coordination and overall awareness. When complemented with Orbit Logic’s Autonomous Planning System (APS) solution (already developed and proven on high-fidelity testbeds), SCRAMBL will allow the constellation as a whole to achieve greater overall system utility through agent-supported asset teaming strategies.” The underlying blockchain algorithm will be developed in such a way that it enables the spacecraft system to bypass interruptions in communications. Should one node encounter issues, the rest can swiftly and dynamically adapt and determine the most effective way to transmit a message. Read more...
Cryptonaire Weekly | September 1st 2020
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