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Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter
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Key facts
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 has powered up on board a datacenter orbiting 250 miles or about 400 km above the earth
- What they do know is that RHEL 10.1, along with Red Hat’s Universal Base Image (UBI), are up and running on the ISS
- As of writing, a rideshare aboard a Falcon 9 runs about $7,000 a kilogram. ®
- That RHEL-powered satellite is Voyager’s LEOcloud Space Edge “micro” datacenter, which launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and hitched a ride on the International Space Station (ISS) back
Summary
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 has powered up on board a datacenter orbiting 250 miles or about 400 km above the earth. That RHEL-powered satellite is Voyager’s LEOcloud Space Edge “micro” datacenter, which launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and hitched a ride on the International Space Station (ISS) back in September. The system is designed to demonstrate the advantages of processing data gathered directly in orbit, rather than sending info back to a terrestrial conventional datacenter. Voyager boasts the reduction in latency makes the system as much as 30x faster than sending all the data back to Earth.