Mu Space

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Communication had awarded mu Space a license to provide satellite services to Thailand until 2032.[11] In October 2017, the company signed a contract to lease a satellite ground system or teleport from CAT Telecom.[12] Mu Space is temporarily using the satellites of another company SES[13] to provide broadband services in Thailand, pending the development of the company's own satellite in 2021.[11]

mu Space's satellite will be worth up to US$150 million and have an orbital lifespan of up to 15 years.[14] It will use the 50.5 degree East orbital slot to provide coverage over Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand.[15] Mu Space has signed satellite launch contracts with Blue Origin [5] and Relativity Space, to fly on the New Glenn and the 3-D printed Terran 1 rockets, respectively.[8]

mu Space has partnered with tech company Qualcomm to deploy smart city applications and services in Thailand.[2]

In Thailand, smart city is part of the government's Thailand 4.0 initiative. The first pilot project on smart city was initiated in Phuket in 2016, where the public sector allocated US$11 million to develop the city's digital economy and transform it into an international tourism hub.[16] This was followed by Chiang Mai with an initial US$1 million fund to implement smart agriculture, and Khon Kaen with over US$400,000 to focus on becoming a medical, transportation and exhibition hub.[17]

mu Space has started developing a smart apparel that can be worn and record health data for use in medical diagnosis. Product tests will be carried out at the IoT Institute in Thailand Digital Park, scheduled to be completed in 2020.[3] Mu Space is also operating a lab at True Digital Park in Bangkok, Thailand to research and showcase their products to the public.[9][18]

As a part of the company's space program, in July 2018, mu Space sent an experimental payload into space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepherd space rocket to test how materials react in micro-gravity environment. The payload included a silicon bleeding-prevention device used in hospitals, a carbon nanotube, and a vacuum-sealed food product. mu Space had four times successfully sent payload to the boundary of space with the intention of raising public awareness, in the micro-gravity stages with Blue Origin New Shepard flight. In the mid 2020, mu Space will send an extra enormous payload cooperating with TOT Public Company Limited which incorporates a wide scope of electronic devices, and sensors for the estimation. Apart from that, mu Space also coordinates with a group of scientists, biologists, young students and famous Thai artists to send anti-disciplinary experiments for studying the effect of weightlessness and understanding of DNA Storage Preservation.

Recently mu Space focuses on enhancing new innovations such as robots for small unmanned ground vehicles which are under the process of prototyping models. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems to benefit the automation systems in massive data consumption from unlimited sources, easy spam detection, simplifies time-intensive documentation in data entry as well as rapid analysis prediction and processing to enrich navigation systems. After the AI and ML systems are enhanced and completed, they will be used to build a small autonomous space vehicle regarding the future mission of Lunar exploration.

3D image of Mu Space's spacesuit

In 2021, the company plans to offer space tourism service to customers in Asia-Pacific. mu Space in September 2018 revealed the 3D image of spacesuit their customers will be wearing during spaceflight.[19]

In September 2020, mu Space unveiled Thailand’s first development plan of a small space vehicle, following the press conference. This plan focuses on several important goals:

1) Aiming to build a Data Center outside the Earth’s atmosphere, this will eliminate the major problems of creating a data center infrastructure such as controlling the temperature to be more stable and appropriate for operational systems, which temperature must be low. This will be used up to 40% of total electricity (Research of Power Consumption by Subsystems), bringing the data center out to a cooler environment of -270 ° C., and making it possible for eliminating the obstacles of temperature.

2) This will be the utilizing of pure energy without relying on the world energy resources and this spaceship will orbit into space, including be able to receive solar energy underside of the spacecraft all the time. Moreover, it can work independently without having to lean on the resources on earth. This causes the next consequence.

3) Safety due to the spaceships orbiting in the sky and are connected in a network or constellation, making it secure from natural disasters and accidents on Earth caused by fires and floods, as well as connecting in large groups covering the entire world. This will make the connection smooth and be accessible to every corner of the world.

mu Space assembled a team of engineers to help in the rescue mission to save the 12 boys and their football coach trapped inside Tham Luang cave in Thailand. The company collaborated with Google and Weather Decision Technologies to provide the rescuers with weather forecast models.[20]

The Boring Company founder Elon Musk also offered his help and discussed his rescue plan via Twitter with Mu Space founder James Yenbamroong.[21] Musk then flew to Thailand with his private jet to deliver the "kid-sized" submarines his engineers developed for the rescue mission.[22] Thai authorities however decided not to use the submarines.[23]