In this episode we talk about MIT's Lunar Knowledge Graph called Lunar Open Architecture and MIT’s intriguing research on a crowd-sourced, sharing-economy-like, tokenized satellite constellation. A sat-constellation-as-public-utility.

The MIT’s Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative has the goal “to invent, create, and deploy ideas that seem exotic and impossible today, but could be commonplace in ten years.”

Our guest today is the research lead of MIT’s Lunar Open Architecture project, Mehak Sarang. Mehak is a trained physicist and a Research Associate both at Harvard Business School and MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative, and an active member of the Open Lunar Foundation, Moon Dialogs, and the SGAC EAGLE Team.

CONTENT
00:02:14 Intro
00:07:44 MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative
00:12:50 Lunar Open Architecture
00:19:47 Knowledge Graph / GraphQL / Automated Reasoning
00:26:04 Stakeholder Interests of NASA, SpaceX, and others
00:32:32 Database Open Access
00:35:35 How to contribute?
00:37:03 Sharing Economy in Space | Blocksat
00:44:39 Satellite constellation for the people by the people
00:53:53 Time to market
00:56:17 What is needed to start up Blocksat?
01:00:13 Federated Satellite Applications
01:03:26 What’s next at MIT Space Exploration Initiative
01:05:33 Next Harvard Business Review Case Study on ISS
01:11:49 Why space, why space now?