[Air-L] IPNSIG IM-2 Moon mission keynotes

[Joly MacFie]

The Internet Society Interplanetary Chapter's IPNSIG Academy
<https://ipnsig.org/ipnsig-academy-events/> keynotes in May and July both
featured projects that will be riding to the Moon on the IM-2 mission
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IM-2> aka Athena, which will launch some
time in Q4 2024. IM, by the way, I have discovered, stands for 'Intuitive
Machines' which is a Houston company whose IM-1 aka Odysseus was not only
the first privately built craft to land on the moon, but the first
successful American soft landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.

The May keynote <https://isoc.live/17964/> was by MIT doctoral student
Fangzheng Liu, and focused on creating miniature IoT devices that can crawl
on the surface of the lander, or be sprayed around an inaccessible area, to
assist in the gathering of data from the regolith
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regolith>  (added that one to my vocabulary,
too!) communicating via LoRa. One of Fangzheng's innovations is a
self-righting system whereby the devices can orient themselves, no matter
how they land.
*VIDEO <https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy19> | AUDIO
<https://archive.org/download/ipnsigacademy19/ipnsigacademy19.mp3> | TRANSCRIPT
<https://archive.org/download/ipnsigacademy19/ipnsigacademy19.pdf>*

The July keynote <https://isoc.live/18121> was by Luis Maestro of Nokia
Bell Labs, who, with his team, has been tasked with setting up a one time
robust 3GPP LTE/4G network for the IM-2's vehicles, the Nova-C lander,
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitive_Machines_Nova-C> the MAPP rover,
and the MicroNova hopper all to communicate with each other. (See a bunch of
images
<https://www.nokia.com/about-us/newsroom/media-resources/media-library/inside-look-at-nokia-moon-mission/>).
For the project they created a 'network-in-a-box' that is standards-based,
including IP/TCP, so that it is scalable going forward. Spectrum under
consideration includes 3.5Ghz (aka CBRS in the USA).
*VIDEO <https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy20> | AUDIO
<https://archive.org/download/ipnsigacademy20/ipnsigacademy20.mp3> | TRANSCRIPT
<https://archive.org/download/ipnsigacademy20/ipnsigacademy20_TRANSCRIPT.pdf>
| SLIDES
<https://archive.org/download/ipnsigacademy20/ipnsigacademy20_SLIDES.pdf>*


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