OpenStack in the Space Industry (#28)

Thank you Mavenspire (http://mavenspire.com) for sponsoring OpenStackDC and this event.

Agenda:

• 6:30 - 7:00 - Meet, greet, eat & drink

• 7:00 - 7:10 - Introductions and Announcements

Topics

1. OpenStack for Spacecraft Ground OperationsTimothy Esposito (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/timothy-esposito/0/b03/1) Mission Operations Technologies, EmergentSpace (http://emergentspace.com)

Bio:Timothy Esposito has been working in the space industry for 17 years developing satellite ground systems and exploring future software architectures for government and industry customers. He has worked on a multitude of projects, including NASA Earth Science missions, NASA Space Science missions, Iridium, Intelsat, and Air Force projects. While exploring future ground system concepts, much focus has been on enterprise and multi-mission operations facilities.

Abstract:The space industry is a particularly challenging arena to integrate the latest and greatest technologies because of long development timeframes spanning more than 5 to 10 years in some cases and satellites can often remain in operations for 10 to 20 years or longer. Because of the associated technical challenges, many satellite ground systems tend to remain in silos and often remain a step behind in technology curves. Efforts are very risk adverse to using new technologies because satellites are very expensive assets. The use of virtualization is picking up for new or reengineered satellite ground systems with VMware being the de-facto standard. However, satellite operations has not used public or private cloud computing technologies on a large scale yet. Our customer has been exploring concepts of a centralized operations facility to consolidate costs and service multiple satellite missions in a single logical facility. As part of this effort we have deployed a private OpenStack cloud with ground system applications installed and operations scenarios simulated. This presentation will cover the place OpenStack could have in the space industry and the experiences of deploying OpenStack.

2. An Ideal Platform for Standardized Operating EnvironmentsMatthew Ward is a Solution Architect with Red Hat

Abstract: OpenStack represents many challenges to organizations whose operational procedures are built around patch cycles of traditional or proprietary stacks of software (1.5 years). Enterprise OpenStack implementations, like RedHat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, work to find the balance of the most essential innovations from each (six month) release cycle and stable supportable infrastructures. With the flood of changes and patches, it’s more important than ever to understand the mechanisms available to keep environments at scale, unified, and actively managed while improving Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), better IT productivity and increased agility.

Trivia: While Red Hat Satellite6 has nothing to do with space, it is fitting that it has a related name and that the upstream project for its predecessor, Satellite5, was called SpaceWalk?

Presenter: Matthew Ward is a Solution Architect with Red Hat focusing on Cloud Technologies. Before Red Hat he worked 10+ years in the public sector as a consultant. His focus was on infrastructure automation and high performance computing environments for the Defense sector. Among others, his clients included the Army Research Center and Department of Information Systems Agency. He is a recent addition to the Red Hat Commercial Partners team.