{"id":59443,"date":"2020-07-07T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hypergiant-collaborates-with-us-air-force-on-reconfigurable-constellation\/"},"modified":"2020-07-07T20:26:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:26:47","slug":"hypergiant-collaborates-with-us-air-force-on-reconfigurable-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hypergiant-collaborates-with-us-air-force-on-reconfigurable-constellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypergiant Collaborates with US Air Force on Reconfigurable Constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The U.S. Air Force<\/strong>\u2019s collaboration with Texas-based Hypergiant Industries<\/strong> will to lead to a Chameleon Constellation of 24 to 36 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) enabled cube satellites able to be re-tasked for national security and other missions within minutes.<\/p>\n

Air Force small business innovation research grants are funding the program, which Hypergiant proposed to the Air Force in January and which may lead to a follow-on contract of more than $10 million, according to Hypergiant. The Air Force and U.S. Space Force<\/strong> are providing weapon system support, the company said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are several use cases for the Chameleon Constellation that utilize AI including being able to use a constellation of satellites that can work together to run machine learning models in space on the space-derived data that other satellites provide to the constellation,\u201d Hypergiant CEO Ben Lamm emailed Defense Daily<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother use case is that the constellation will be real-time retasked for other use cases such as imaging or communications. Think of it as a group of satellites that work together and can change their function based on the need from the ground. The satellites could be quickly updated and reconfigured while in orbit. Let\u2019s say a volcano erupts and there isn\u2019t an imaging satellite in range. The Chameleon Constellation could be reconfigured in real time to support the efforts. This planned Chameleon Constellation of 24 to 36 satellites could switch within minutes from providing communications to taking pictures of the disaster and aiding first responders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Retired Air Force Gen. Lance Lord, the former head of Air Force Space Command and an adviser to Hypergiant, said in a Hypergiant statement that \u201ca reconfigurable fleet in space will be a tremendous advantage to today\u2019s warfighters.\u201d<\/p>\n

On June 30, Hypergiant announced the roll-out of the prototype of the company\u2019s first node in the Chameleon Constellation, which is to use the Air Force Platform One system as the foundation for the constellation\u2019s architecture.<\/p>\n

Next February may see the launch of the first cubesat on NG-15, which is to be the 15th resupply mission for the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Northrop Grumman<\/strong>\u2018s  Cygnus robotic resupply ship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe satellites are currently designed to be 6U [in dimension] and will be in LEO [Low-Earth Orbit],\u201d Lamm wrote in his email. \u201cBased on the success of the phase 1 of the mission, we expect to start rolling out the constellation immediately and continue to over the next two years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether the constellation could act as a supplement for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared missile warning satellites and what Air Force missions the Chameleon Constellation would address, Lamm replied that Hypergiant is \u201cfocusing on phase 1 mission success for [continuous delivery continuous integration] for the real-time updating of software of assets in orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom there, these are several other use cases and goals we are focusing on including distributed computing, secure backup, and real time ML of other space-derived data from other satellites,\u201d Lamm wrote.<\/p>\n

Air Force Maj. Rob Slaughter, the director of DoD\u2019s Platform One, said in the Hypergiant statement that \u201cin order for the U.S. to remain competitive and protect the systems that run the lives of everyday Americans, we created a solution that allows for continuous software delivery in space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lamm said that Hypergiant\u2019s Chameleon Constellation will help reduce the extended, years-long development and launch times for satellite systems. Hypergiant said that it has deployed systems on four ISS resupply missions\u2013NG-10, 11, 12 and 13\u2013and has worked with NASA<\/strong>, Army Space, DARPA, Lynk<\/strong>, Dynetics<\/strong>, and Amazon Web Services<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published by our sister publication Defense Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Air Force\u2019s collaboration with Texas-based Hypergiant Industries will to lead to a Chameleon Constellation of 24 to 36 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) enabled cube satellites able to be re-tasked for national security and other missions within minutes. Air Force small business innovation research grants are funding the program, which Hypergiant proposed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}