Scientists use Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Now in Google's Pocket, Too
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The Register UK ☛ Scientists use Raspberry Pi tech to protect NASA telescope data
Scientists have revealed how data from a NASA telescope was secured thanks to creative thinking and a batch of Raspberry Pi computers.
The telescope was the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT), launched on April 16, 2023, from Wānaka Airport in New Zealand. The telescope was raised to approximately 33km in altitude by NASA's 532,000-cubic-meter (18.8-million-cubic-foot) balloon and, above circa 99.5 percent of the Earth's atmosphere, it spent over a month circumnavigating the globe and acquiring observations of astronomical objects.
The plan had been for the payload to transmit its data to the ground using SpaceX's Starlink constellation and the US Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). However, the Starlink connection went down soon after launch, on May 1, and the TDRSS connection became unstable on May 24. The boffins decided to attempt a landing on May 25 due to poor communications and concerns the balloon might be pulled away from further land crossings by weather.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ AI literacy for teachers and students all over the world
We and Google DeepMind are building a global network of organisations to bring AI literacy to more teachers and students, starting in Canada, Kenya, and Romania.