Tag: Memory
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Sidus Space Develops Advanced High-Speed Switch Card for SmallSats
Sidus Space, a provider of end-to-end precision Space Infrastructure solutions that include satellite Data-as-a-Service on its proprietary on-orbit platform, announced that it has designed and developed an advanced high-speed switch card using the Frontgrade protocol independent Crosspoint Switch. The multi-payload switch card is integrated into LizzieSat-2 (LS-2) and is offered as a standalone product to…
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Frontgrade’s 2 Gbit Dual Quad SPI MRAM Achieves NASA’s Space-Flight Qualification
Frontgrade Technologies, one of the leading providers of mission critical electronics for aerospace and defense, announced that its high-density 2Gbit Dual Quad SPI Magnetoresistive Random-Access Memory (MRAM) offering has successfully obtained flight-grade production through NASA’s PEM INST-001 Level 2 qualification standard for plastic-encapsulated microcircuits. This achievement further validates this new MRAM’s reliability and assurance as…
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Teledyne e2v’s 8 GB DDR4 Memory Chip Achieves Successful Space Qualification
Teledyne e2v announced the successful Space qualification of its 8 GB space DDR4 memory as part of its edge compute solutions for space. This announcement marks the conclusion of Teledyne e2v’s DDR4 initial qualification. These include all the upscreening activities (temperature cycling, construction analysis, C-SAM / confocal scanning acoustic microscopy, preconditioning, Temperature Humidity Bias, …)…
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Microchip Launches New 64-bit HPSC Microprocessor Family for Autonomous Space Computing
The world has changed dramatically in the two decades since the debut of what was then considered a trail-blazing space-grade processor used in NASA missions such as the comet-chasing Deep Impact spacecraft and Mars Curiosity rover vehicle. A report released by the World Economic Forum estimated that the space hardware and the space service industry…
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Microchip Unveils Radiation-Tolerant 32-Bit Arm Cortex-M0+ Based MCU for Aerospace Market
Space exploration is experiencing a resurgence with exciting new missions like the highly anticipated Artemis II mission, the recent successful lunar landing missions such as JAXA SLIM and Chandaaryan-3, and New Space deployments in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Designers require electronic components that meet stringent radiation and reliability standards to operate in the harsh environments…
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NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix
Engineers have determined why NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has been transmitting gibberish for nearly five months, raising hopes of recovering humanity’s most distant spacecraft. Voyager 1, traveling outbound some 15 billion miles (24 billion km) from Earth, started beaming unreadable data down to ground controllers on November 14. For nearly four months, NASA knew Voyager…
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Frontgrade Introduces Plastic-Encapsulated Arm Microcontroller for New Space Missions
Frontgrade Technologies, a provider of mission-critical electronics for aerospace and defense, has introduced its first plastic-encapsulated Arm Microcontroller to the Space market. This new Arm Microcontroller will achieve flight grade production in July 2024 through NASA’s PEM INST-001 Level 2 qualification standard for plastic-encapsulated microcircuits. The PEM qualification assures Frontgrade’s customers that the device meets…
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Aitech’s Space Systems Integral to the Success of Intuitive Machines’ Moon Landing Mission
Aitech, one of the leading providers of rugged boards and system-level solutions for military, aerospace, and space applications, provided a complete avionics computer system to Intuitive Machines for the IM-1 Mission, that successfully landed on the Moon on February 22, 2024. The space-rated system developed by Aitech includes its SP0-S space-rated single board computer, S740…
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HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 Returns to ISS as Part of Northrop Grumman’s Resupply Mission
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it has sent a third iteration of the HPE Spaceborne Computer, built from commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers, to the International Space Station (ISS) via a Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services mission, contracted by NASA, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The goal of HPE Spaceborne Computer-2’s latest trip is to build…
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KIOXIA SSDs Power HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 for ISS Mission
KIOXIA SSDs took flight with the launch of the NG-20 mission rocket, which is delivering an updated HPE Spaceborne Computer-2, based on HPE EdgeLine and ProLiant servers from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to the International Space Station. KIOXIA SSDs provide robust flash storage in HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 to conduct scientific experiments aboard the space station. HPE…