If you've listened to Technology Untangled before, you'll know that we don't normally talk about

HPEE tech and the work that we do. But sometimes a customer will ask us to help out with a project

that's just too cool not to talk about. And today, we're exploring something that is beyond cool,

beyond our terrestrial limits even.

A customer ask us if we could take one of their computers and put it on a rocket and deliver it to a spaceship.

And if you haven't guessed already, that client I so subtly hinted at is NASA.

Yep, that NASA.

And they're bringing the power of high-performance computing to the final frontier. Much of their mission that they perform here on Earth

with their computers in their labs would not be possible when we get to the moon

or the Mars due to the distance and the time it's going to take to download the data to be

process. On today's episode, we're looking at the tech in space that will make missions to Mars

possible. We're going to be finding out what it is that makes sending the latest supercomputers

into space so difficult, why we need edge computing on the International Space Station and

beyond, and we'll learn about some of the cutting edge science and experiments happening on

the International Space Station as we speak. All this and much more. I'm Michael Bird, and this is

Technology Untangled.

Human Kind has always had a fascination with space exploration, but in recent years, this fascination has really, well, taken off.

Private companies have developed reasonable thrusters, and some are even able to launch billionaires into orbit.

But the real goal in everyone's mind is getting to that mysterious rust-colored rock.

You know the one I'm talking about. It's Mars.

And to get there, we're going to need more than just bigger boosters, because according to the pros,

what we really need is spaceships with supercomputers.

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