Today, November 29, employees of the Russian hosting provider RuVDS announced the joint development of an advanced satellite server, which is being created jointly with the Small Space Systems company. The size of the future space server will be approximately 5 by 5 centimeters, and its release is planned for next year, RuVDS employees told the TASS news publication.
“Hosting provider RuVDS and Small Space Systems signed an agreement on the joint development of a server satellite. It will be the first device in history to provide hosting directly in orbit,” RuVDS representatives said.
It is worth noting that the dimensions of the satellite server actually play the most important role in this case, since this will significantly reduce the cost of launching it into Earth’s orbit.
“For the project, we chose the format of a picosatellite – this is a small device 5 by 5 cm, the launch of which into orbit is 10 times cheaper than launching cubesats. We plan that the space server will start operating next year,” said Nikita Tsaplin, founder and CEO of hosting provider RuVDS.
The representatives of the hosting provider also explained that the advanced pico satellite, which will act as a space server, will be created on the Tinysat platform, which belongs to the Small Space Systems company. True, so far there is no information about the technical characteristics of the device, since, apparently, the device is at the very early design stage. But if the satellite server is planned to be sent into orbit next year, then the first details are likely to arrive in the near future. And, of course, the list of sites that will be launched on this server will be compiled very carefully.
“The choice of portals that will alternately be hosted will be carried out after the launch of the device into orbit,” the authors of the project said.
In addition, the creators of the advanced space satellite said that the device will perform various scientific and educational tasks. For example, specialists will be able to analyze the operation of server hardware in conditions of weightlessness, high radiation and extreme temperatures. It is likely that this will allow significant progress in the field of space servers, which will change the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Internet in the near future.
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