Cloud Technology: Conquest of Commercial Space Business

Abstract

Cloud-computing technology has far exceeded what business ever thought of, from significant cost saving to reducing deployment time. It has invaded into almost all types of businesses, and in the last decade, it simplifies the way business is running, growing, adapting to economic changes, and maximizing out the return of investment to immeasurable levels. Space has become the new era’s business, and it is not anymore watching rocket launch. The real space money comes from direct home television, GPS products, and services, the things affecting our day-to-day lives or things that have global markets, which is where space is making money out of. Space used to be dominated by governments’ agencies, but in today’s world there is a democratization of space (Tim Fernholz in Quartz: SpaceX is about to take the lead in the satellite internet race. https://qz.com/1618386/spacex-launches-first-starlink-internet-satellites/). Commercial space industry is spending multimillion dollar on satellites and rockets, which are increasingly playing a part in our everyday lives. For satellites to function, they need to be able to communicate with ground station, which is a combination of signal processing digitization called “Headend” and computation of data at centers. Billionaires such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and others have brilliantly and genuinely brought the cloud-computing and commercial space industry together and made them inseparable, from earthly profitable businesses, such as internet and video, communication infrastructure, autonomous vehicles like UBER, online mapping such as Google or Apple, energy industries, imagery, defense, and intelligence to the twenty-first century optimistic futuristic businesses of trillions of dollars such as Space Cloud, Moon Cloud, Space tourism, asteroid mining, and Mars exploration voyages (Wendover Productions, https://www.wendoverproductions.com/).