Apparently , transformer ’ Allspark is more potent than we ’d ever imagined . How else to explain a unexampled artificial satellite that will be able to deepen itself into different probes , depending on what it deems necessary at the prison term ?
The new probe – which has the unusual nickname of “ theflying laptop ” – is a product of the University of Stuttgart ’s theInstitute of Space Systems , and specifically of Toshinori Kuwahara . The satellite , still only in a theoretical level , will moderate all manner of sensors for multiple purposes , include cameras , multispectral and thermal infrared imagers , GPS receivers and even sea - surface - height perception radar . to keep the multiple United States of America of the orbiter participating , Kuwahara plans to replace the traditional satellite microprocessors with field - programmable gate array silicon chip , which leads to the major hitch in his plan : FGAs may be move by cosmic ray , which could step in with the chips or even corrupt the information on them .
assume Kuwahara can work out suitable cosmic ray shielding , the first flying laptop computer is hop to establish in 2012 .

Space investigation to lark about ‘ transforming ’ hardware[New Scientist ]
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