International Space Station

Satellite M2M and Big Data reassure ship owners facing piracy, theft and long logistics chains

We take for granted that we live in a connected world as we read tweets from the International Space Station, ponder the first driverless cars and expect WiFi in airplanes.

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Photo: Robert Markowitz & Bill Stafford

NASA robot transformed from research project into Space Station crew member by Digi WiFi module

(Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA) – NASA is using a wireless module to WiFi enable its Robonaut, a humanoid robot that will perform routine maintenance tasks on the International Space Station (ISS).  The module is Digi International’s ConnectCore® Wi-i.MX53.

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Libelium-sensored rocket

Open Source satellite blasts off in five days with Libelium M2M sensors measuring radiation

(Tanegashima, Japan. July 31, 2013) — On August 4, 2013 at 5:00 am local time, an unmanned H11-B rocket containing Libelium Sensing Technology will lift off from the Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) in Japan en route for the International Space Station (ISS). Libelium Radiation Sensor Boards are included in the main payload of the two

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