Partners

Unistellar, a French manufacturer of computer-connected telescopes, is SkyMapper's foundational telescope partner. This collaboration provides SkyMapper with immediate access to Unistellar's global network of thousands of smart telescopes, operated by citizen scientists. This partnership furnishes SkyMapper with a distributed physical infrastructure for astronomical data collection, thereby enabling rapid scaling without the necessity of constructing a network de novo. By leveraging Unistellar's community, this collaboration facilitates real-time observation and data collection for phenomena such as asteroid occultations, comet activity, and exoplanet transits, substantially enhancing the scope and efficiency of astronomical research.

The SETI Institute explores the origins of life, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the mysteries of the cosmos. Through cutting-edge research, education programs, and public outreach, they strive to expand humanity's understanding of the universe. The SETI Institute’s expertise in instrumentation, research and data analysis, and research helps process the vast amounts of astronomical data collected by SkyMapper's decentralized telescope network.

Akave supports SkyMapper's mission by providing a decentralized data layer and storage solution built on a dedicated Avalanche L1 blockchain. This infrastructure enables the collection of tamper-proof astronomical data from SkyMapper's telescope network. The Avalanche blockchain ensures that all data interactions, from uploads to reads, are recorded on-chain, creating a transparent and verifiable record of every observation. Akave's system guarantees data sovereignty and immutability, allowing scientists to trust the provenance and integrity of the astronomical data, which is crucial for scientific analysis and discovery.

CoopHive offers a decentralized marketplace for computing resources, enabling the buying and selling of compute power for tasks such as AI inference and data processing. Clients, like SkyMapper, can execute tasks across a distributed network of nodes, leveraging the Bacalhau platform to eliminate the need for centralized data storage. This partnership outsources intricate image processing and AI inference tasks to a distributed network, on-chain, guaranteeing the integrity and provenance of SkyMapper's scientific imaging data.