Full Project Analysis: AstroCare Space-Medicine Platform

0.1 What the Project Is

AstroCare is an autonomous, delay-tolerant clinical decision-support and physiological vital monitoring platform designed for astronaut healthcare across the International Space Station (ISS), Lunar Artemis missions, and Deep-Space Mars expeditions.

In deep space, communication with Earth experiences up to 24 minutes of one-way light-time (OWLT) delay and frequent orbital blackout periods. Ground flight surgeons cannot provide real-time resuscitation guidance during medical emergencies. AstroCare solves this by running an autonomous, air-gapped clinical intelligence stack directly aboard the spacecraft LAN, providing immediate triage for crew medical officers while managing store-and-forward telemetry relays to Mission Control on Earth.

0.2 System Architecture Diagram

0.3 Final Inventory Counts

• Total Backend Services: 12 core micro-services (ingest, quality, linkEmulator, fusionEngine, storeAndForward, mlClient, etc.).
• Backend Route Handlers: 18 REST and Socket.IO namespaces.
• Test Suites: 49 Vitest test suites covering concurrency, security attacks, and delay emulation.
• Database Collections: 8 collections (Time-Series Vitals, Fused Alerts, Link State, Audit Ledger, Sessions).
• ML Models: 1 LightGBM/XGBoost predictive decompensation classifier in ml-sidecar/.