Red Hat gives RHEL 10.1 the boot into orbit
Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter
Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images
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.
Originally developed by LEOcloud prior to its acquisitionby Voyager last year, Space Edge is, as its name...
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