Space
The Sound of Progress: Data Sonification, Space, and Accessibility
Data sonification is a new tool that can enhance accessibility while offering a new perspective for data analysis.
July 11, 2023 • 5 min read Data
Beyond the Stratosphere: Computing in Orbit
The new space age promises a not-so-distant future where humans explore and leverage space’s vast resources. But one doesn’t have to envision robots building data centers on the moon (check out Part I in this series) or the human colonization of Mars. Many space applications are more of an axiomatic evolution of what’s already happening […]
February 8, 2023 • 6 min read Technology
Building a Data Center on the Moon
If you haven’t been following the New Space Age closely, the next few decades may knock your socks off. Anticipated is a permanent presence on the moon, a commercial space station, private citizens traveling to orbit, space-based medical treatments, deep space travel, and a flurry of activity involving mining, producing, and exploiting space resources. No one can […]
February 2, 2023 • 5 min read Technology
Black Holes: Photographing the Universe’s Greatest Mystery
Since 2015, Western Digital has been supporting the Event Horizon Telescope, a groundbreaking virtual telescope observing and imaging black holes. Almost every image we’ve seen of a black hole isn’t an image at all. It is an illustration of what we think black holes look like, based on mathematical theory and fairly recent evidence that […]
August 2, 2022 • 8 min read Data
Dispatches from Deep Space: Imaging Data and Space Photography
Powered by technology and data, space photography plays a vital role in communicating NASA's vital work to the public.
July 12, 2022 • 5 min read Technology
Dr. Kiran Gunnam: a Career in Novel Ideas
Dr. Kiran Gunnam is a prolific inventor with nearly 100 patents ranging from space docking technology to robotics and next-gen memories.
April 25, 2022 • 7 min read People
Data in Space: The Exabytes from Orbit
The proliferation of data from space is changing how we understand life on Earth.
October 18, 2021 • 6 min read Technology
The Small Satellite (Smallsat) Revolution
It's a new space age of small hardware and big data. Thousands of small satellites will launch in the coming years creating a tsunami of space data.
October 11, 2021 • 6 min read Technology
Data Storage in Space: a Cosmic Challenge
This is part one of a three-part series about data storage in the new space age. Design by Aisha Alkinaey. Space is austere. It’s an airless vacuum. Temperatures can swing from hundreds of degrees near the sun to so cold that atomic motion slows to a crawl. For engineers and scientists designing satellites and other spacecraft, […]
October 4, 2021 • 6 min read Technology