NASA) Ames研發(fā)中心宣布將與M2mi Corp聯(lián)手研發(fā)一類用太空通信和網(wǎng)絡(luò)的小型衛(wèi)星。這些小型衛(wèi)星(nanosat)將推進(jìn)太空通信和網(wǎng)絡(luò)的商用化。
“NASA希望能與多家公司聯(lián)手開拓太空新業(yè)務(wù)”, NASA Ames中心主管S. Pete Worden在近期發(fā)表的一份聲明中表示。“M2mi所擁有的先進(jìn)技術(shù)與我們的目標(biāo)完全吻合同時(shí)又可增強(qiáng)由NASA所研發(fā)的技術(shù)的商業(yè)用途。”
M2mi將依照與NASA簽署的共同調(diào)查和研發(fā)計(jì)劃開展工作,據(jù)NASA稱這是其第三類簽署類似協(xié)議。雙方將共同開發(fā)出重量在11磅到110 磅之間(大約5-50公斤之間)的小型衛(wèi)星,NASA將在以后發(fā)射多顆類似衛(wèi)星到地球低軌道,形成一個(gè)衛(wèi)星星座。
“由這些小型衛(wèi)星所形成一個(gè)衛(wèi)星星座將構(gòu)建成一個(gè)用于提供通信、數(shù)據(jù)存儲(chǔ)和衛(wèi)星觀測(cè)圖片的強(qiáng)大的、以太空為基礎(chǔ)的全球高速網(wǎng)絡(luò) ,”M2mi CEO Geoff Brown在一份聲明中表示。“此次所研發(fā)的小型衛(wèi)星充分利用了微電子領(lǐng)域的最新技術(shù),可低成本進(jìn)行大規(guī)模生產(chǎn)。
這一基于IP服務(wù)的通信和網(wǎng)絡(luò)系統(tǒng)被定位為支持網(wǎng)絡(luò)電話、視頻、數(shù)據(jù)、無線傳輸?shù)牡?代通信系統(tǒng)(5G)。
NASA將組織納米傳感器、無線網(wǎng)絡(luò)、 小型衛(wèi)星技術(shù)方面的專家與M2mi合作,而M2mi公司則提供軟件技術(shù)、傳感器、全球系統(tǒng)感知、自適應(yīng)控制和商業(yè)化等方面的支持。
NASA太空通信和航空處副行政官Badri Younes在一分聲明中表示,“此次合作將使得未來移動(dòng)通信系統(tǒng)發(fā)生重大變革。”
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NASA plans 'nano' satellites to help commercialize space
NASA Ames Research Center plans to work with M2mi Corp. to develop small satellites to power telecommunications and networks in space. The plan to build "nanosats" will help with the commercialization of space, NASA said.
"NASA wants to work with companies to develop a new economy in space," NASA Ames Center director S. Pete Worden said in a news announcement Thursday. "M2mi has great technology that fits excellently with our goals, while enhancing the commercial use of NASA-developed technologies."
The company will work under a cooperative research and development plan, which NASA said is the third such agreement in its history. It will build satellites that weigh between 11 and 110 pounds and create a constellation in low Earth orbit.
"The constellation will provide a robust, global, space-based, high-speed network for communication, data storage, and Earth observations," M2mi CEO Geoff Brown said in a statement. "Nanosatellites take advantage of the significant technological advances in microelectronics and will be produced using low-cost, mass-production techniques."
The telecommunications and networking system for IP-based services is being developed as a fifth-generation system that allows voice over IP, video, data, and wireless transmissions.
NASA will lend its expertise in nanosensors, wireless networks, and nanosatellite technologies, while M2mi will apply its abilities in software technology, sensors, global system awareness, adaptive control, and commercialization.
"This initiative shows great promise in revolutionizing mobile communications critical in meeting future needs," Badri Younes, NASA's deputy associate administrator for space communications and navigation, said in a statement.
