These are exciting times for us in our new journey with data science. We have proposed for the NASA Tech Leap Universal Payload Interface Challenge to further our understanding of interfaces (both digital and physical). We are taking a component approach of building both our physical interface and our data analysis of telemetry from the payload. We aim to customize while still remain general.

This has been a well trained model as seen with our dynamic collaborations through time. Our collaborations with Florida Space Grant, Silicon Valley Space Center in the Get Away Special and Flight Opportunities programs respectively gave us insight into payload integration.

Our journey has taken us through other challenges like Google Lunar X Prize as a member of Team FredNet and the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize as Team FredNet.

Here are the two videos summarizing our Open Source ideas surrounding these two differing prizes:

We plan on designing a system that reflects these values in a dynamic collaboration, the name of our project.

Challenging us to create a payload interface that supports radiation and shock for passive while providing power and telemetry support, we rise to the challenge with open source off the shelf technologies. Our concept involves interconnected magnetic block supported with radiation hardened edge computing. Beyond the technical challenge, we are planning on integrating team logistics and collaboration dynamically.

For more information, please visit: NASA Tech Leap Universal Payload Interface Challenge