Next best thing to being on International Space Station
The Straits Times|July 01, 2022
NTU students’ machine learning software going up to home of astronauts
Shabana Begum
Next best thing to being on International Space Station

Five Nanyang Technological University (NTU) students have achieved the next best thing to being on the International Space Station (ISS) – their machine learning software is going up to the home of astronauts for three months later this year.

The students will be running the show from their laptops – testing the software, which was built to predict hardware disruptions on the ISS and satellites. Such disruptions can cause these space vehicles to go off course or crash, in the worst outcomes.

Called single event upsets, these hardware disruptions tend to afflict sensitive electrical components in space, such as memory devices on semiconductors.

The disruptions happen when highly charged particles from the sun or nearby constellations strike such sensitive electronics.

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