WISeKey to Launch its First Ever Non-Fungible Token (NFT) from Space

WISeKey to Launch its First Ever Non-Fungible Token (NFT) from Space

PocketPod deployer developed by FOSSA Systems will launch in June 2021 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket by SpaceX.

Through the WISeSat constellation, set to launch its first prototype satellites in December in 2021, WISeKey will enable the direct connection of satellites to IoT devices for NFT authentication, completing the connection cycle from space to device through a secure telecommunication means. The space based NFT ecosystem assures personal and secure authentication capabilities through the global WISeSat constellation developed in partnership with FOSSA Systems.

GENEVA, – May 4th, 2021: WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading global cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain and IoT company, today announced that the Satellite PocketPod deployer developed by FOSSA Systems will launch in June 2021 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket by SpaceX.

This deployer contains various FOSSA customers’ satellites that will be deployed in orbit as part of its launch brokerage services. In collaboration with WISeKey, a WISeKey semiconductors VaultIC secure element device is attached to the exterior of the deployer and will be exposed to space for a period of several weeks in Low Earth Orbit as a first demonstration of WISeKey’s presence in the space-based WISe.SAT ecosystem.

FOSSA is launching this newly designed deployer to facilitate access to space and dispense future FOSSASAT-2E constellations into low earth orbit, assuring re-entry to avoid space debris after the operational life.

Through the WISeSat constellation WISeKey will enable the direct connection of satellites to IoT devices for NFT authentication, completing the connection cycle from space to device through a secure telecommunication means. The space based NFT ecosystem assures personal and secure authentication capabilities through the global WISeSat constellation developed in partnership with FOSSA Systems.

Earlier this year, WISeKey made a strategic investment in FOSSA Systems allowing their satellite technology to integrate into the WISeKey IoT platform connecting all IoT sectors through the development of a WISeSaT PocketQube Satellite. The WISeSaT.Satellite will be a security-IoT hardened FOSSASAT-2E satellite designed to further drive down satellite costs for the already-small Cubesat size.