Axiom Space private astronaut missions support breakthroughs in space, bringing benefits to every human, everywhere.
The SUMIMANT (Send Up My Image via MANT) Útitárs (travel companion) project is a public outreach campaign aimed at increasing awareness of the HUNOR program and Hungarian space activities, particularly among children and young adults. Participants can submit their names and photos online to receive a "boarding pass" for names and pictures to be launched and returned on an SD card.
Imaging of Lightning and Nighttime Electrical Phenomena from Space (ILAN-ES) seeks to collect images from space of lightning and Transient Luminous Events (TLE). These electrical phenomena above thunderstorms on Earth include blue jets, gigantic jets, Emissions of Light and Very-Low-Frequency perturbations from Electro-magnetic pulses (ELVES) and red sprites. Combining observations from the International Space Station with a global network of ground-based cameras, researchers plan to calculate the energy of observed TLE, reconstruct their 3D structures, identify parent-lightning and electrical parameters, and track lightning activity and cloud illumination patterns from different ranges and angles.
Dead reckoning, or the ability to determine current position and navigate based on previous position, is more complicated in space than on Earth. In this project, the accuracy and 'drift' of inbuilt sensors in a cellphone (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, proximity sensor) will be tested via motion and movement-based gestures and compared to those taken on Earth to analyze how sensor performance, and therefore dead reckoning calculations, may be different in space. The results from this study could help inform future spacecraft navigation systems design.
Italian Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) Operations Center (ISOC) Services for ISS (ISOC [Ax-3]) on the private astronaut mission (PAM) Axiom-3 (Ax-3) evaluates a web-based space situational awareness (SSA) tool on the International Space Station. The investigation assesses the tool’s ability to conduct autonomous analysis of the risk of collision between a satellite and another object in orbit and compares space weather alerts with the actual experience of crew members.
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