NASA Funds an Assistant Professor for Developing a Spacecraft That Uses Blockchain: OHIO

NASA Funds an Assistant Professor for Developing a Spacecraft That Uses Blockchain

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been awarded a new grant from the country authorities that supports the development of an autonomous spacecraft which could make all the using of the Blockchain technology without any human intervention, also a new space outlet named outletSpace.com was reported on April 18.

The assistant professor of the electrical and computer engineering of the University of Akron, Ohio, had received a grant of $330,000 from NASA in order to support her research.

Jin Wei Kocsis, told the media that the research program would first examine the application of Ethereum-based Blockchain technology in order to make the computing system more secure in deep space:

“In this project, the Ethereum Blockchain technology will be exploited to develop a decentralized, secure, and cognitive networking and computing infrastructure for deep space exploration… I hope to develop technology that can recognize environmental threats and avoid them, as well as complete a number of tasks automatically. I am honored that NASA recognized my work, and I am excited to continue challenging technology’s ability to think and do on its own.”

The system is likely to be used underlying the “smart contracts” technology which will help us to build a spacecraft which could “think” on itself and most likely it will be made to enable the automatic detect and dodge the floating rubbish in a timely manner. Wei Kocsis has hoped that with such a technology the spacecraft will be able to complete more tasks than it is provided with and also give the scientists more time for the information analysis and they would no longer be occupied with these anticipating environmental threats.

The University of Akron has still not disclosed the timeline for the research by the professor and when would it be sent into the space. But however, Thomas Kacpura the manager of advanced communications program at NASA’s Glenn Research Center said that it will the first time ever center which will consider the Blockchain applications in the terms of space communications and navigation.