SpaceCube 3.0 Flight Processor Card

About this technology

Overview

SpaceCube 3.0 is a family of high-performance reconfigurable systems designed for spaceflight applications requiring on-board processing. SpaceCube 3.0 has greater processing performance over previous generations of SpaceCube. Many proposed missions require next generation on-board processing capabilities to meet specified mission goals. Advanced laser altimeter, radar, lidar, and hyper-spectral instruments are proposed for future missions, and all of these instrument systems require advanced onboard processing capabilities to facilitate data conversion. Besides an increased processing performance need, there is a need for a processor card capable of detecting and reacting to events, producing data products on-board, enabling sensor web multi-platform collaboration, performing on-board lossless data reduction by migrating typical ground-based processing functions on-board. In general, the processing needs of emerging space missions require a stronger flight processor card. SpaceCube 3.0 Flight Processor Card represents an improved flight processing system.