Building a Next-gen Space Ecosystem for Networking, Connectivity & AI
Ralph Grundler · 2023
The implementation of electronics using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) systems, leveraging open standards and highly adaptive scalability, facilitates cost-effective systems, a common thread across all parts of today’s space exploration. Along with COTS systems, the Space Digital Backbone (DBB) concept that unifies communications across space platforms is helping set the pace for the future of new space exploration. This paper explores how the convergence of these two trends is enabling significant technological innovations in both the exploration and expansion of modern space applications.