The Filecoin Foundation facilitates the open-source governance of the Filecoin network and supports the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem and community. It funds research and development projects for decentralized technologies, including the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), and demonstrated the use of decentralized technologies in space communications by sending files to space and back. A major partner is Lockheed Martin, with whom they collaborated to test IPFS for use in space. The Filecoin Foundation's work enables better communication across long distances and resilience in challenging space environments.
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Filecoin Foundation will deploy the Interplanetary File System in space on a first-of-its-kind mission in 2023.
In May 2022 in Davos, Filecoin Foundation and Lockheed Martin initiated an effort to deploy IPFS in space to improve the speed of long-distance data transfer.
Lockheed Martin and the Filecoin Foundation announced their collaboration at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland on 2022-05-23.
Lockheed Martin and the Filecoin Foundation will work over the next several months to identify a spacecraft platform to host an IPFS payload that will relay data to and from Earth and other spacecraft.