Australian startup Spiral Blue invites developers and researchers to run custom code on the SE-1 space computer.

After Spiral Blue deployed its own machine learning algorithms on SE-1, on August 31st, it made a call to people interested in sending the code into space. Spiral’s head of business development, Mei He, told SpaceNews that applications for the initiative, called Your Code in Space, could be as advanced as applying artificial intelligence to satellite imagery or as simple as creating a meme. Blue.

Spiral Blue will respond to proposals submitted through the company’s website with information on how, when and at what cost various codes can run on the SE-1 computer.

“We try to make it as accessible as possible to everyone, including students and amateurs,” he said.

Spiral Blue’s SE-1 payload was integrated with the Satellogic spacecraft, launched with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in January. Sydney-based Spiral Blue announced the successful commissioning of the SE-1 in April. Since then, Spiral Blue has been testing its own machine learning algorithms for clipping clouds from satellite images aboard SE-1. Vein detection algorithms and client code were also tested.

“It took us about five years to get our equipment up and running in orbit,” he said. “Now we can help others. We’ve done the hard work.”

Spiral Blue offers your code in space applications such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, agricultural analysis, urban planning and wildlife conservation.

Your code is in space Spiral Blue’s CTO, James Battenshaw, “proves to be extremely effective in removing barriers to the application of proprietary analytics in space, allowing companies to acquire space heritage in a fraction of the traditional time.”

Henry Zhong, head of Spiral Blue AI, said in a statement that the company “achieved our dual goal of making our satellite programmable, allowing third parties to run their own code on board, and significantly reducing data requirements to only extract useful insights.” “