Tag: Command & Data Handling Systems
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BrainChip and Frontgrade Gaisler to Integrate AI into Space-Grade Microprocessors
BrainChip Holdings, the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI IP, and Frontgrade Gaisler, a provider of space-grade system-on-chip solutions, announced their collaboration to explore the integration of BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic processor into Frontgrade Gaisler’s next generation fault-tolerant, radiation-hardened microprocessors. This collaboration represents a significant milestone as it aims to…
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TelePIX Unveils a Breakthrough High-Performance AI Processor for Satellites
TelePIX, a pioneering space startup based in South Korea, has achieved a groundbreaking feat: the development of TetraPLEX, a high-performance AI processor designed specifically for satellites. Boasting an impressive 10 trillion operations per second of processing capability, TetraPLEX marks a monumental leap forward in satellite technology. Functioning as an on-board processor (OBP), TetraPLEX facilitates in-space…
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Top Satellite On-Board Computers in 2023
On-board Computers represent the core processing units orchestrating intricate operations within satellites. These computers are pivotal in executing commands, processing data, and managing onboard systems, enabling a myriad of satellite functionalities such as communication, navigation, and scientific data collection. As the demand for advanced satellite missions and precise operational capabilities intensifies across governmental and commercial…
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Redwire’s Onboard Computer Powers ESA’s Hera Mission Studying DART’s Planetary Defense Impact
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the world’s first planetary defense test mission, launched two years ago on November 24, 2021. With Redwire’s Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) and digital sun sensors onboard, DART made history when it successfully impacted the moonlet of binary asteroid Didymos in September of 2022 to adjust its speed and…
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NASA and Ball Aerospace Successfully Complete Roman Space Telescope’s Primary Instrument
Ball Aerospace and its partners at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have successfully completed the assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s camera system, called the Wide Field Instrument (WFI). The WFI will serve as the observatory’s primary instrument, providing the scientific community with detailed and expansive images of the cosmos. The instrument will…
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ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite Progressing Towards Launch after Passing Critical Design Review
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Arctic Weather Satellite has passed its Critical Design Review, a key step to start the manufacturing of the satellite ahead of its planned launch in 2024. AAC Clyde Space supplies the mission’s main instrument, as well as core avionics, under contracts valued at a total of 13.5 MEUR (approx. 160…
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BAE Systems Showcases its New Radiation-hardened FPGA for Space Applications
BAE Systems, a company that provides one of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defense, aerospace, and security solutions has introduced a new radiation-hardened field programmable gate array for space applications. The RH1020B radiation-hardened field programmable gate array is a fully guaranteed device targeted for use in military and space applications. It is fabricated using BAE…
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Xiphos and Epiq Solutions Announce New Q8RF Radiation Tolerant Embedded Computer Module
Xiphos Systems Corporation and Epiq Solutions have introduced the Xiphos Q8RF, a next-generation radiation-tolerant embedded computer based on the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZU28DR RFSoC. The Q8RF is targeted for small satellite applications where advanced wide bandwidth processing is required while minimizing size and power consumption. The Q8RF combines an embedded Linux computer, reprogrammable logic, multi-giga…