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Intel Chip Set to Drive Data Systems for Private Spacecraft Venture
By: Chris Preimesberger
2008-08-18
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Intel Chip Set to Drive Data Systems for Private Spacecraft Venture (
Page 1 of 3 ) Intel is providing its new Tolapai chip set and storage vendor Dot Hill is providing the data storage arrays for Hermes, a private space travel project. The Dot Hill arrays using the Tolapai chip sets will provide real-time feedback to the flight crew for the Hermes shuttle, which is being designed to eventually reach a suborbital altitude of 62 miles.SAN FRANCISCOThe
world's largest chip maker and a relatively little-known data storage company
are teaming up to provide a major portion of the IT system for a space travel
project that might one day turn into a commercial venture.
Intel is providing its new "Tolapai"
chip set, and Dot
Hill Systems, a small, independent storage array company, is handling all
the data storage requirements.
No, this isn't the Spaceship Two project headed by designer
Burt Rutan and backed by maverick entrepreneur Richard Branson, who
also is developing a commercial space bus.
This is the Hermes Spacecraft, a space shuttle designed by another
entrepreneur, Morris Jarvis of Mesa, Ariz. Hermes
is being developed on the premise that anyone should be able to take a
trip into space.
But such a flight will never be cheap; a project spokesperson said a seat for
one person will be about "the cost of a new car." However, anybody
who's been auto shopping lately knows that you can buy a new Kia for tens of
thousands of dollars less than, say, a new Maserati, so there's a lot of
latitude in that statement.
Those tickets have to be expensive. Jarvis has said it will cost about $1.5
million to raise the craft skyward on a test flight with a helium balloon, and
that launching it with a rocket engine would cost about $5.4 million. The ship
will only carry a few peoplemost likely six to eight.
Specifically, Jarvis' business plan provides for space travelers paying $25,000
for a trip powered by a helium balloon and $100,000 for a rocket-powered ride.
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