Open access to NanoSatisfi's Ardusat satellite is opening up new frontiers for public and companies to leverage upon.
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Imagine the possibilities if you could conduct your own experiments in Space: Amateur Scientists could study South Atlantic anomaly from Space using radiation sensors, magnetometers,etc. or people could simply take pictures from Space, study spectrograph of sun or some interesting game like spotting historical sites on Earth from Space pictures. With a business idea of renting the satellites in Space for conducting experiments, NanoSatisfi is democratizing the Space.
NanoSatisifi has launched a satellite, ArduSat, that will give access to people conduct their own experiments in Space. Sizing just 10 by 10 centimeters, Ardusat is fitted with various sensors viz spectrometer, ambient light sensor, magnetometer, Geiger Counter and multiple cameras that can be used for conducting customized experiments in Space itself. It could be useful for scientists, universities, high-school students, etc. to learn or research more about space conditions (such as meteor tracking) or for entertainment purposes such as taking pictures from space.
NanoSatisfi uses a very popular open source platform, Arduino development board, which makes it easy for developers to build applications for their experiments just as applications are developed for iOS and Android. Developers send their applications to the company which is then tested on ground in a replica of satellite and is up-linked to satellite in Space after testing. Developers have all the access to the data from their experiments. Currently, NanoSatisfi charges $250 for one week's access to satellite.
Peter Platzer, CEO, NanoSatisfi, believes that data from these, apart from its educational use, can be immensely valuable to companies dealing in machine-to machine, internet of things, asset tracking, etc.
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