- Software that can detect threats of meteor and meteroite impacts to other objects
- In the past, thought of as detecting strikes on Earth (http://bolid.es)
- Focus of this talk is bolide strikes in space (space stations, shuttles)
- Can also be used to automate evasive manuevers
- As more and more satellites, space shit is launched, the likelyhood of bolide strike in space increases, thus the need to keep track of all objects
- A tiny pebble can be catastrophic to humans in space. Loss of pressure, air to breathe. Extremely expensive to replace space equipment.
- Building complex systems is super expensive if they are built on the ground and launched into space.
- The key and future of mankind is to build things in space.
- To do that, you need raw materials and fuel to move around in space.
- These resources would be comets and asteriods that are mined.
- This would in turn create more materials floating in space to keep track of.
- Orbital mechanics
- An object in space has 6 data points to consider (x, y, z, vx, vy, vz)
- What are x, y, and z relative to?
- Clip of Gravity] = BULLSHIT
- Changes in vx, vy, vz occur with collisons and use of thrust to change positions. Expensive to change velocity.
- Swarm behavior
- Space craft would move relative to each other based on the bolide detection system to stay out of harms way.
- Like schools of fish when whales eat
- No one!
- NASA has an open source contest: https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/challenge/airburst-data-visualization/#hackpad
- Who ever can create this system will be rich and famous forever.