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NEXUS

retired
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Launched 1/18/2019
Technical Specifications
Verified technical details
Dry Mass
1 kg
Total Mass
1 kg
Power
Unknown
Design Life
Unknown
Stakeholders

Operator

Nihon Daigaku

Manufacturer

Nihon Daigaku
Launch Mission

RAPIS

1/18/2019

Entity Mentions
All verified mentions of this entity in source documents

Nexus plans an inaugural trial transaction within 30 days to test the embedded blockchain hardware inside the International Space Station, including data transfers between ground- and space-based servers and deployment of multi-signatures.

Mentioned as: NexusSourceJun 6, 2021

Nexus’s blockchain wallet payload is installed as a hosted payload on Nanoracks’s commercial platform aboard the International Space Station and includes all data up- and downlinked onboard the ISS.

Mentioned as: NexusSourceJun 6, 2021

Nanoracks is a Houston-based satellite operator and space solutions company that hosted Nexus’s blockchain wallet payload on its commercial platform aboard the International Space Station.

Mentioned as: NexusSourceJun 4, 2021

SpaceChain delivered the completed blockchain hardware to Nanoracks upon completion of the work for Nexus.

Mentioned as: NexusSourceJun 6, 2021

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Nexus’s proprietary wallet hardware as an ISS resupply Mission-22 payload launched from Kennedy Space Center LC-39A on 3 June 2021 at 1:29 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Mentioned as: NexusSourceJun 4, 2021