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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nWhat makes this program so unique?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a comfortable, luxurious and pressurized capsule suspended by a large space balloon, eight lucky souls and a pilot will climb effortlessly through the stratosphere at about 12 miles per hour. Eventually, the capsule will hover at 100,000 feet above earth for about two hours before a quiet and gentle descent back to Earth where it splashes down in the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Siemens and AWS partnership: turning \u201cwhat ifs\u201d into reality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The project creates a three-pronged challenge for Space Perspective: 1) The design of the capsule; 2) The rigging between the capsule and balloon; and 3) The balloon itself. Further, the design requires robust analytics capable of figuring out the complex loads and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of a six-hour round trip that involves travel through air, space, and water while maintaining a safe, comfortable environment for passengers. The key is to see how the capsule behaves in all these environments under various conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Siemens and AWS partnership allowed Space Perspective to reduce analysis time for structural, thermal and other analyses that impact capsule design from 168 hours down to 8 to 12 hours. Space Perspective was able to run Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+<\/a> at 100 Gbps on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)<\/a> which provided secure and resizable compute capacity. Amazon EC2 C5n Instances<\/a> delivered cost-effective, high-performance compute power at a low, price-per-compute ratio for advanced compute-intensive workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s interesting to note before working with Siemens and AWS, Space Perspective was facing prohibitively lengthy (and costly) analysis times and needed a comprehensive suite of tools that could handle the enormous processing requirements of its CFD modeling. With the help of the partnership, and Siemens Xcelerator<\/a>, a small start-up was able to tap into the massive compute power it needed with very little downside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please visit the Siemens and AWS partnership website<\/a> to watch the video. The video is easy to find and it\u2019s well worth your time. You\u2019ll hear directly from the folks at Space Perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, listen to the podcast<\/a> for even more detailed information<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check out the Space Perspective case study on AWS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWatch the Space Perspective video for the complete story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n