MyRadar is a weather app that includes star citizen moons and planets.[1]
With NASA producing good imagery form Mars, ACME AtronOmatic, LLC who makes ther MyRadar app took that imagery to show it in the app. With no reason not to apply this technology to artificial worlds, it ended up being used for Star Citizen planets.[1]
As ACME was using other people data, which had its limitations for ACME purposes, along with with a gap in the ability to provide some of the data while launch costs were coming down and ACME in-house technical capabilities were up to the challenge, ACME eventually decided to build and launch their own satellite, TRSI-2, to look at the earth using a special hyperspectral camera in a stereoscopic way, to look, besides weather, at agriculture, geography, ocean temperatures, and more.[1]
Satellites
As a way to pay tribute to Star Citizen and inspiration it gave its CEO, just as other sci fi such as Star Trek inspired him and others, ACME emblazoned the Star Citizen logo on the cubeseat on the on the exterior of a testbed satellite, which makes Star Citizen the first video game to have its logo on a device that's in orbit around Earth.[2][1]
The early-stage purpose of the testbed satellites is to establish the workflow and proof of concepts, but both of them are still to be fully functional, with the intention to launch a constellation of the satellites to allow more global coverage for both services each satellite was designed to address.[3]
Both satellites are engineered and built in-house. The first satellite was a PocketQube launched the Rocket Labs "We're Running Out of Fingers" mission, with launch partner Alba Orbital.[3]
First satellite, with the Star Citizen logo
This first satellite which is the one with the Star Citizen logo is an introductory satellite intended as a testbed for the aviation side of ACME business; listening to aircraft tracking signals from space and transmitting them back down to the ground. Receiving the signals from space allows to track trans-oceanic aircraft away from ground stations and helps provide a safety service. Currently, MyRadar provides aircraft tracking services as well as arrival and departure delay information, gate information, and other flight details that can assist both the casual traveler and aircraft pilots/operators.[3]
Second satellite
There is a second satellite which is a weather/environmental observation testbed satellite, with the data getting back from the image processing helping with everything from hurricane predictions to agricultural analysis. Among others it can look inside the eye wall of a hurricane with a 3D perspective, allowing to get greater details on the intensity and temperatures at the center of these storms and to provide for greater accuracy in tracking these storm.[3]
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References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 MyRadar & Star Citizen are going to Space!, MyRadar Weather News, Youtube, 22 nov. 2019
- ↑ TRSI-2, nanosats.eu
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Exclusive – Star Citizen Goes to ACTUAL SPACE with MyRadar!, wccftech.com, Nov 22, 2019