HoloConnect Powers NASA’s HERA Campaign with Holographic Communication
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HoloConnect Powers NASA’s HERA Campaign with Holographic Communication

Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) Campaign 7, Mission 4 Crew – Updated Crew. Photo Date: November 1, 2024. Location: Bldg. 220 – HERA Facility. Photo Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

We are proud to share that HoloConnect was successfully utilized during NASA’s HERA Campaign 7, which consisted of four missions. Crew members inside HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) communicated holographically with HERA Mission Control personnel using our cutting-edge holographic technology.

🔍 What is HERA?
HERA is one of NASA’s analog habitats. Volunteers inside HERA simulate the isolation and confinement of deep-space missions to help NASA prepare future astronauts for the challenges of space exploration.

🌌 HoloConnect continues to redefine the future of communication—bridging distances with holographic presence.

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Aexa Aerospace and STRIKEWERX Deliver Cutting-Edge B-52 Electronic Warfare Equipment to AFGSC

AEXA Aerospace delivered a modernized version of the Electronic Warfare Pressurizing Test Set during a special event Aug. 13 at STRIKEWERX in the Cyber Innovation Center, Bossier City, Louisiana. (Sean Green/STRIKEWERX)

The next evolution of equipment that sustains America’s deterrence is being delivered to Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC).

AEXA Aerospace, a company that provides solutions for training and operational support, has collaborated with STRIKEWERX, the innovation partner AFGSC and a division of the Cyber Innovation Center (CIC), to create new capabilities and increase efficiency for the Electronic Warfare Pressurizing Test Set (EWPTS).

The EWPTS is used to test the defense system of the B-52 aircraft. The command is seeking to update the current equipment, as its underperformance affects crew safety and mission fleet availability.

The current EWPTS increases maintenance time by 200–300% since repairing faulty test sets require up to six hours with a less-than 40% success rate. This new portable design is easier to repair, easier to use in diagnosing equipment failure, and allows for greater availability in extreme weather.

“Due to the age and parts availability of the older equipment, we have a shortage of old testers, and this new device will help fill that stop gap and enhance our mission capability,” said Master Sgt. Justin Countryman, AFGSC project champion.

This equipment provides an updated and modernized piece of test equipment that should improve reliability and parts availability, increase speed of testing, and reduce equipment and power needs.

“This innovative device achieves unparalleled reliability through the integration of Commercial Off-The-Shelf components, ensuring the Air Force’s ability to easily source replacements globally both today and for the next 25 years,” said Dr. Fernando De La Peña Llaca, CEO and president of AEXA Aerospace. “This amalgamation empowers the Air Force with state-of-the-art tools, advancing their mission capabilities with the latest technological prowess.”

Additionally, it incorporates portable holographic technologies and augmented reality (AR) technology to create an AR maintenance tutorial.

Dr. De La Peña Llaca said that collaborating with the government on the project fostered a collaborative environment where business and government came together to collectively defined the requirements for a revolutionary new device.

“Through the synergy of AEXA, AFGSC, and STRIKEWERX, we navigated the development of the next generation EWPTS with unprecedented efficiency, sidestepping traditional bureaucratic hurdles,” he said. “This endeavor exemplifies one of the United States Air Force’s most commendable traits — innovation.”

Countryman was also complementary about collaborating with industry to develop this new tester, noting the result will be a definite upgrade.

“The STRIKEWERX process helped us find a good industry partner, which allowed us to focus on other priorities,” he said. “It was very nice that we as the customer didn’t need to be managing the overall project, instead providing information to a responsive industry partner in AEXA who could enable agile and rapid prototyping.”

About the Cyber Innovation Center 

Cyber Innovation Center (CIC), located in Bossier City, Louisiana, is the anchor of the 3,000-acre National Cyber Research Park and serves as the catalyst for the development and expansion of a knowledge-based workforce throughout the region. As a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation, CIC fosters collaboration among its partners and accelerates technology, research, and development. One of its primary missions is to develop a sustainable knowledge-based workforce that can support the growing needs of government, industry, and academic partners.   

B-52 electronic warfare upgrade by Aexa Aerospace and STRIKEWERX.

Air Force Global Strike Command EWPTS modernization.

Portable holographic and AR technology for B-52 defense systems.

Aexa Aerospace innovation in defense equipment.


More info at: https://www.strikewerx.com/aexa-aerospace-strikewerx-deliver-new-b-52-equipment-to-global-strike-command

Aexa featured by Microsoft

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1684336369924902473-aexaaerospace-azure?fbclid=IwAR1fA21mxMaBNzF-BBWAFyTqyzabqs0pOdvKuUKmb2HPrte0PgDMiWMMFq0

Aexa Aerospace produces creative solutions for training and operational support using mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality. The company worked with Microsoft to create a solution using holographic teleportation where 3D models of people are virtually reconstructed as a three-dimensional figure elsewhere in real time. Aexa is developing the Microsoft HoloLens and the Aexa Holowizard© solutions in the health, energy, defense, and aerospace sectors, so that remote subject matters experts like surgeons can be “in the room” and provide better communication and support. Using the solution, Aexa CEO Fernando De La Peña Llaca and his team became the first humans to use holographic teleportation from Earth into space.

We were the first ones and the only ones that completed holoportation in space in human history. 

Customer challenges

What if a surgeon in a remote location could use holographic teleportation to help with a complicated surgery as though they were in the operating room? Aexa Aerospace, LLC is aiming to make this question a reality. The company provides creative solutions for training and operational support using mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality in the health, energy, defense, and aerospace industries. Its vision is to become the undisputed world leaders in using XR (extended reality) to enhance personal communication, training, and real-time operations support. Aexa wanted to build a holographic teleportation solution so that subject matter experts could provide better assistance in remote locations.

Partner solutions

Holographic teleportation allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed, and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time. Using holographic teleportation with the Microsoft HoloLens—an ergonomic, untethered self-contained mixed-reality device—and the Aexa Holowizard© technology, people on Earth can transport themselves into space. The solution is particularly helpful when an astronaut needs medical attention. After setting up the Holowizard©, both astronaut and flight surgeon don a Microsoft HoloLens. Aexa’s software, built with the Kinect Camera[bS1]  Developer Kit translates volumetric capture data of both participants.

This partnership will create a new wave for people to communicate, to work, to interact, and socialize. We just opened a box of unlimited possibilities. 

Customer benefits

Aexa is developing the Microsoft HoloLens and Aexa Holowizard© so that subject matter experts can benefit from a 3D experience, making assistance more accessible, experts more informed, and hopefully lead to quicker outcomes. Aexa is focused on expansion for multiple platforms and uses in the health, energy, defense, and aerospace sectors—for situations like remote surgeons entering the operating room or getting a remote Air Force expert to help with a plane that needs to refuel. 

Aexa CEO Fernando De La Peña Llaca and his team have used the solution to become the first humans to use holographic teleportation from Earth to go into space. This allowed medical professionals to talk to astronauts for assistance. Using the two-way holographic teleportation, the flight surgeon and the astronaut appear as three-dimensional figures to each other. The flight surgeon can visually assess the astronaut and provide treatment, and the astronaut can visually point to an injury or describe their illness. “This partnership will create a new wave for people to communicate, to work, to interact, and socialize,” says Fernando De La Peña Llaca, CEO at Aexa Aerospace CEO. “We just opened a box of unlimited possibilities.”

With the Microsoft HoloLens and the Aexa Holowizard©, CEO of Aexa Aerospace Fernando De La Peña Llaca and his team became the first humans to complete teleportation in space in human history. 

Now, subject matter experts can benefit from a 3D experience, leading to more information and better assistance. Like in the case of flight surgeons who can visually assess and treat astronauts, and astronauts visually describing an injury.

The solution is being expanded for use cases in the health, energy, defense and aerospace sectors, so that remote surgeons can enter the operating room, or a remote Air Force expert can help with a plane that needs to refuel.

This is the beginning of a new communication technology. 
Fernando De La Peña Llaca: CEO