THE TESLA ORBITAL SPACE TELESCOPE PROJECT

This project builds our communications and operations infrastructure, starting with the Tesla Orbital Space Telescope (TOST) NanoSat, which will test communications hardware at high altitudes and in space, and provide a flight asset focus for our communications and operations network development. This network will consist of radio operators around the world, communications Teleport facilities, including some that have not been fully utilized since the Apollo era, and operations control centers where our mission control teams and exploration partners will interact with space based assets like NanoSats, planetary landers, rovers and other spacecraft.


We ordered the Arduino-based Firefly controller board developed by Kentucky Space for the flight control and spacecraft operations. We will use the S series Gravity Development Board (GDB) from Solar System Express for custom applications and experiments involving the telescope and other sensors. This is the start of our participatory space program, and here is your opportunity to participate, to get involved in space research, exploration and development. Our space program, Synergy Space, will be accessible via smart phones and tablets, personal computers and specialized virtual reality interfaces. Synergy Space virtual simulations will provide users with not just the data, but the experience of exploring outer space.

Launch of the Synergy Moon NanoSatellite is scheduled for this winter, 2013/2014, aboard an Interorbital Systems' Neptune microsatellite launch vehicle. You can read about Interorbital Systems' SmallSat Launch Program to learn more.