NASA DataTurbine Activities & Systems
NASA Marshall engineer on the DC-8 Airborne Laboratory during NAMMA mission in 2006. DataTurbine is running on a MacMini in the equipment rack.
http://namma.nsstc.nasa.gov/
There is a good PR piece at
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/namma.html
excerpt:
"Dr. Zipser's classroom is a milestone that demonstrates sustainable benefits derived from effective network communications with airborne platforms," Freudinger said. "As sensor Web technologies mature, the network becomes the instrument by which many students and researchers observe and learn. This really is just the beginning."
Composite image showing all flight tracks of 3 aircraft for TC-4 airborne science mission based in Costa Rica, summer 2007. Realtime navigation data, instrument-specific communication, and associated processing involves DataTurbine.
more info on TC-4: http://www.espo.nasa.gov/tc4/
A snapshot of realtime mission monitor showing two aircraft flight tracks integrated with GOES weather imagery in Google Earth. 2D altitude histories for aircraft overlays in upper left.
The aircraft data is cached on the ground in DataTurbine and is served to several applications in addition to this integrated display
more info:
http://www.espo.nasa.gov/tc4/
https://indscore.dfrc.nasa.gov/
http://rtmm.nsstc.nasa.gov/
Studio shot of new "contingency system" for airborne science field operations. DataTurbine runs on an 1-U Apple XServe server.
NASA Dryden uses dataTurbine to support globally deployed airborne science activities using a development laboratory on its main campus at Edwards AFB in southern California.
IT security planning requires us to have a "contingency management plan" that enables us to continue operations in the event of catastrophic events such as earthquakes and backhoes
This is our prototype field-deployable backup system for the lab. It requires a power source and somebody else's WAN link to the internet, but otherwise has firewall-protected network segments and other features that mimic what you expect to see in any corporate data center.
The dataTurbine is used as the caching proxy and distribution server underneath the web services.
The antennae you see are IRIDIUM antennae that allow research airplanes to dial directly in to the backend network. The IRIDIUM modems are on the tripod to the left, packaged in weather-resistant housings.
This is the same system shown in http://dataturbine.org/content/field-deployable-contingency-system-ed07-...