Space Telescope Science Institute Uses Blockchain to Process Hubble Data

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has launched a platform which accelerates Hubble Space Telescope research with blockchain technology. There is so much data generated by the Hubble Space Telescope, the leading telescope for investigating deep space, that the government and researchers don’t have enough computing power to thoroughly analyze all of the data.

This effort is led by STScI scientist Josh Peek. He says, “Tens of millions of CPU hours can really run up a bill. NASA and STScI use computing centers and that’s a way we can go… but there’s long latency period where you go through a grant process… and so the idea came up that we could use a distributed network to do this really efficiently, it’s 10 times cheaper than standard cloud computing.”

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