Smarterthrives
in outerspace
SAGA SPACE ARCHITECTS:
CUSTOMER STORYSAGA Space Architects design
outer-space habitats from a humanperspective. Founded by Danisharchitects, Sebastian Aristotelis andKarl-Johan Sørensen, their goal is
to integrate social sustainability
and mental well-being with space
exploration and to make living inouter space accessible to everyone.
The Challenge
LUNARK is SAGA’s latest and mostambitious project. Having built theworld’s first analogue moon habitat
and transported it to Greenland, theteam endured three months in harsh
Arctic conditions. The expeditionbegan in permanent daylight andended in permanent darkness, withtemperatures dropping as low as-30°C and wind speeds over 50mph(90km/h). Every two minutes,biometric and environmental readings
were taken, measured and stored.

The crew also completed at least six
questionnaires per day. The goal wasto understand whether their wellbeing correlated with the resultsof the data they were capturing.
One of the main psychologicalchallenges in space is the lack ofstimuli. The team theorised thatsimulating sunrise, sunset and thechanging weather on Earth should
improve the mental well-being ofastronauts. In order to test the theory,
natural circadian rhythms weredesigned and implemented using
LED lighting panels in the habitat,
controlled and monitored by theThinkPad P15.
With the expedition completed, thechallenge now is to learn as much as
possible from the data they collected
to help improve the well-being ofastronauts in future missions to space.

HOW LENOVO WORKSTATIONSTRANSFORMED THEIR PROCESSWIND SPEED

The LUNARK team needed workstations that were reliable, lightweight and able to capture data 24/7 for the entiretyof the expedition. Both the ThinkPad® P15 and the ThinkStation® P350 were crucial to the success of the expedition.
ThinkPad P Series
The ThinkPad P15, equipped with Intel® Xeon®
processors, delivered mission-critical processing,real-time analytics and artificial intelligence for theduration of the expedition.
They were used as the main tools for:• Interfacing with the habitat• Controlling and monitoring experiments• 3D modelling, for replacing parts using
a 3D printer• Completing research and questionnaires• Storing all habitat files, documentation
and user manuals• Video, photo file management and backup,
including over 100TB of video footage (up to 8K)

ThinkStation P350 TWR
Since returning from Greenland, the LUNARK teamare using the ThinkStation P350 to edit footageand photos and analyse the data using Pandas
DataFrames. The P350 will be used to train ananomaly detection model on the data sets. Using
Python™ 3.8, a Variational Auto Encoder is modified
to use a Student T distribution in Tensorflow. Thisis correlated with the events of the expedition,comparing the data from the habitat sensors andthe daily surveys to gain insights into the optimum
environment for an astronaut’s well-being.
Thanks to the massive processing power of theThinkStation P350, the team is able to use CPUintensive Photogrammetry, 3D modelling andtexturing to create a detailed, high-polygon 3Dmodel of the interior of the habitat, which will soon
be available as a virtual reality experience.

ThinkStation

P350

ThinkPad

P15

ThinkVision®
up to 8 cores

P27q

up to 13.8 hours
94Wh

ThinkPad P15 Recommendations
Processor: Intel Xeon W Processor
Graphics: NVIDIA RTX™ A5000
Memory: 64GB 3200MHz DDR4
Storage: 6TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD

ThinkStation P350 TWR Recommendations
Processor: Intel Xeon W Processor
Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 5000
Memory: 128GB 3200MHz DDR4
Storage: 6TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD©2021 Lenovo. All rights reserved. These products are available while supplies last. For any questions concerning price,please contact your Lenovo Account Executive. Lenovo is not responsible for photographic or typographic errors.
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