As the HPE Spaceborne Computer program celebrates its third journey to the International Space Station, let us take a look back at the various design and maintenance challenges faced by HPE and NASA in the system’s creation. There is no such thing as a straightforward journey to space for a computer operated at the farthest edge. From an off-the-shelf HPE Apollo 40 server used in Spaceborne Computer-1 to the HPE Edgeline EL4000 and HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 servers powering the Spaceborne Computer-2, HPE engineers and researchers had to iterate and learn on-the-go to meet the highest standar...