Speakers
Description
The Wild Ride satellite mission currently in orbit has demonstrated the ability to orchestrate a set of 23 “applications” from a variety of partners, including “WorldFloods”, an ML payload developed by the Frontier Development Lab (FDL), a partnership led by UK-based
Trillium Technologies with the University of Oxford and ESA’s Phi-lab.
This presentation will cover 3rd party application management, development and deployment using SpaceCloud framework orchestration on heterogenous hardware. The presentation will exemplify how applications are containerized using docker and scheduled for execution.
Applications targeted for flight is validated prior to launch in a process where they are uploaded to a hosted docker registry and pulled onto flight hardware and executed. Allowing rapid software development and maximize software reuse in the field of Earth Observation and robotics contributed to the selection of core CPU architecture and Linux based operating system.
On the Wild Ride mission, a full version of the geospatial software ENVI® and language IDL® was included to allow application developers a feature rich existing library to leverage. In-flight applications test results and hardware health data will be presented together with an outlook for future missions.
