ian webster, software engineer at google: "how i became a rocket scientist with data"
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hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, water, silicates...
platinum group metals, nickel, iron, cobalt, magnesium...
gather data calculate combineorbital parameters
physical characteristicsspectra
meteorite compositionmetal values
mission costsmining value
shortest routesclose passes
asteroid composition
Free and open data
• 1,000,000+ page views
• 200,000+ sky survey images reviewed
• Schools and universities
• Hundreds of developers
• Onboard telemetry
• Compression & transmission
• Autonomy
• Open source
Space becomes a software problem