Aitech, a leading provider of rugged embedded systems for military, aerospace and space platforms, has officially announced the launch of its picosatellite (PicoSat) constellation platform called IQSat™.
According to certain reports, IQSat arrives on the scene bearing artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, thanks to Intuidex’s Watchman for Space™ (W4S™) product, which is capable of detecting and providing insight on patterns and anomalies for a range of applications, including public safety, agriculture, military, defense, climate, biology, and more.
More on the new technology would reveal how it is small enough to be easily held in the palm of a hand. It can also be deployed in a constellation of five to thousands.
As a result, the solution is able to offer unprecedented coverage, while simultaneously staying powerful enough to deliver actionable pattern of life analysis, rapidly and frequently, from any desired point on Earth.
IQSat can be further expected to deliver at your disposal Higher-Order Low-Resource Learning™ (HO-LRL™) in support of rapid do-it-yourself user-based modeling, detection and tracking, pattern of life, anomaly detection, and constellation operations capabilities that enable new uses across an assortment of markets.
For instance, the military and defense industry can bank upon the new technology to leverage a low probability of intercept and low probability of detection to access critical information on threat locations, directions, and velocities across any area of interest, at tactically significant update rates.
Looking past that, we can specifically narrow down our focus to understand how sectors focused on space situational awareness can use IQSat to enhance their operations. You see, with flexible sensor options and constellation configurations, IQSat is able to bring forth low-cost capability for detecting space debris and preventing space collisions.
Not just that, such a setup can also come in handy for monitoring orbital traffic, as well as identifying changes in the context of satellite trajectories or potential anti-satellite threats.
Almost like an extension of that, space habitats also stand to gain significance value from Altech’s latest brainchild. We get to say so because, when placed in the vicinity of Space Habitats, IQSat can deliver temperature, radiation levels, and other data variables like micro-meteorite impacts and material degradation or external surveillance to detect space debris collision threats.
The technology in question can also tread up a long distance to enhance public safety efforts. You see, a low-cost LEO constellation of IQSats can tread up a long distance to provide rapid detection of remote areas, and therefore, identify natural disasters, such as floods and fires.
Furthermore, the technology enjoys the means help in remote search and rescue operations through detection of objects, locations, and movement directly to the rescuer; all while simultaneously boasting the abiliy to monitor infrastructure surveillance of dams, bridges and other structures.
Hold on, considering we haven’t yet touched upon how IQSat can also aid science and research efforts. Basically, a constellation of IQSats can provide researchers and scientists with a low-cost solution for tracking unique weather patterns, monitoring wildlife migrations around the world, and gauging ocean currents and wildlife etc.
Among other things, we ought to mention how, with Watchman for Space, the IQSat platform can dynamically update its incident, event, object or threat detection priorities to meet ever-changing mission needs through uplinked software and configuration driven by users, IQSat also empowers you to access the industry’s first common payload interface, designed to host multiple payloads on a single flexible electrical and mechanical interface.
The idea behind this latter mechanism is to allow for quick and standardized designs that reduce cost, NRE and time to launch.
“Space-based infrastructure solves big problems and fuels big advancements on Earth. The new IQSat platform is integral to space accessibility by delivering low cost, rapid deployment constellations that provide access to actionable information quickly and frequently for infinite applications,” said Pratish Shah, U.S. general manager at Aitech. “Whether used for military and defense, environmental or agricultural applications, communications or scientific research, the flexibility, cost and availability of a solution like IQSat has not existed before – providing more accessibility to the power of space.”
